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811 So. 2d 1026 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited

19 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Oliveaux · State v. Dorthey · New York v. Ferber · 603 So. 2d 739 - State v. Lobato · 709 So. 2d 672 - State v. Johnson

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “measurable contribution to acceptable goals of punishment”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime,”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “the purposeful imposition of pain and suffering”
    6 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.