Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Anglemyer v. State (2007), Wooley v. State (1999)
65 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 Jones v. West · Thacker v. State · Prowell v. State · Bunch v. State · Brown v. State
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“manifestly unreasonable in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bluck v. State · Perry v. State“[T}he issue is not whether in our judgment the sentence is unreasonable, but whether it is clearly, plainly, and obviously so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Perry v. State · Bradley v. State
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.