People v. Cisneros’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2019
20 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Solem v. Helm
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Extremely harsh sentences are not constitutionally disproportionate when imposed for the commission of grave offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. People v. Foster
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.