839 So. 2d 561 - Rodriguez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 2014
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan · 678 So. 2d 663 - Sanders v. State · 562 So. 2d 1206 - Riely v. State · 826 So. 2d 1288 - Nichols 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, when a comparison threshold of the crime committed to the sentence imposed leads to an inference of gross disproportionality, a three-pronged analysis is used to see if the sentence is out of proportion with the crime.”
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.