697 So. 2d 22 - State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2017
4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan · State v. Dorthey · State v. Sepulvado · State v. Mims
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court reexamined this area of the law and upheld a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole for a defendant convicted of possessing more than 650 grams of cocaine. In doing so, although a majority could not agree on the exact standard to employ, the Supreme Court limited the instances in which a complete Solem v. Helm proportionality analysis is required. [Footnote omitted]. As a result, courts are required to conduct the proportionality analysis required by Solem v. Helm only if, after comparing the gravity of the offense against the severity of the sentence, the court infers that the sentence is “grossly disproportionate” to the offense. State v. Wimberly, 618 So.2d 908, 913 (La. App. 1st Cir.), writ denied, 624 So.2d 1229 (La. 1993) (citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.