Conley v. Pate’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Solem v. Helm · Trop v. Dulles · Miller v. Alabama · Miller v. Alabama · Graham v. Florida
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e cannot rewrite a statute that 'almost' fits a case to make it apply where it clearly does not.”
1 later decision 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.