State v. Cotton’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
208
cited by 208 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
205 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3559
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Solem v. Helm · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Harmelin v. Michigan
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 208 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“within 3 years of being released from a state correctional facility operated by the Department of Corrections or a private vendor,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“be punished to the fullest extent of the law.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State · Grant v. State“pursuant to [the habitual offender statute] or any other provision of law,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State · Grant 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.