Downs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
October 2014
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. State · Fisher v. State · Lee v. State · Rogier v. American Testing & Engineering Corp.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no reasonable person could find the sentence appropriate given the particular offense and character of the offender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State“in the absence of the statute, the power to punish contempt is limited by reasonableness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State“generally a matter left to the sound discretion of the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State
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.