Neale v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wooley v. State · Buchanan v. State · Fointno v. State · Buchanan v. State · Francis 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an authorization to revise sentences when certain broad conditions are satisfied.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tracy v. State · Smith v. State“if, after due consideration of the trial court's decision, the Court finds that the sentence is inappropriate in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State · Downs v. State“absence of physical harm is not an automatic mitigating circumstance such that it would require a lesser sentence than would otherwise be imposed.”
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.