State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2014
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan · Rummel v. Estelle · Weems v. United States · State v. Ramseur
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he sentence is initially compared with the crime committed. Unless this threshold comparison leads to an inference of gross disproportionality, the inquiry ends — the sentence is constitutional. In those rare cases where this inference does arise, the analysis proceeds by comparing (1) the sentences imposed on other criminals in the same jurisdiction, and (2) the sentences imposed for commission of the same crime in other jurisdictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Smith“Initially, the sentence must be compared to the crime committed. Id. “Unless this threshold comparison leads to an inference of gross disproportionality, the inquiry ends — the sentence is constitutional.” Id. The Court instructed that if an inference arises, the analysis requires a comparison of the sentences imposed on other criminals in the same and other jurisdictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.