Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
January 2003
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nebraska v. Wyoming · Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC · Smith v. State · Sweeney v. State · Edgecomb 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 7 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. King 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perry v. State“clearly, plainly and obviously unreasonable”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King 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.