State v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2024
22 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 · Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker · Gardner v. Florida · Townsend v. Burke
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires that a sentencing judge act on reasonably reliable and relevant information in exercising discretion in fixing a sentence.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Guillen · State v. Gasper“had indicia of reliability and was relevant in sentencing”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“trial judges may receive and consider a wide range of evidence concerning the defendant in fixing the penalty to be imposed,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.