State v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 2026
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Harmelin v. Michigan · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri · Rummel v. Estelle · Ewing v. California
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.
“contains a 'narrow proportionality principle,' that 'does not require strict proportionality between crime and sentence' but rather 'forbids only extreme sentences that are”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blue
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.