State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
November 2013
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Pineda · State v. Ballard · State v. Morris · State v. Clark · State v. Gordon
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““stand for the proposition [that] there’s a very strong policy against interfering with a trial justice’s discretion in sentencing matters, and [that] the Supreme Court will only interfere in what they categorize, in their words, the instance where the sentence imposed is * * * without justification * * * [and] grossly disparate from the other sentences generally imposed for similar offenses.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.