State v. Hymes’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 2005
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · McKay v. Jobin · Anchors v. United States · State v. Cook · State v. Mims
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the trial court abused its broad sentencing discretion, not whether another sentence might have been more appropriate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.