State v. Ferrara’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
December 2011
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Diggs v. United States · United States v. House · State v. O'ROURKE · State v. Brigham · State v. Ferrara
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`allows [a] trial justice to evaluate whether the sentence originally imposed is unduly severe under the circumstances and to consider any new information or circumstances that may arise * * *.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thornton
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.