Abel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Smith v. State · Battles v. State · Moody v. State · Johnson 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“difference here between the presumptive or minimum sentence and the enhanced sentence 'hardly can be argued to impose much, if any, additional hardship on the child' ... The trial court correctly declined to give this factor any mitigating weight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weaver v. State“Only when a trial court fails to find a mitigator that the record clearly supports does a reasonable belief arise that the mitigator was improperly overlooked.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edmonds 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.