Cocio v. Bramlett’s Empirical Analysis
872 F.2d 889 · 1989
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2008
13 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Solem v. Helm · Enmund v. Florida · Rummel v. Estelle · Tison v. Arizona · Johnson v. Righetti
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.
“Whether the opportunity for parole exists is an important factor in determining the harshness of the penalty. The Court in Solem relied heavily on the absence of a possibility of parole in its determination that the sentence was unconstitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]bsent a constitutionally imposed uniformity inimical to traditional notions of federalism, some state will always bear the distinction of treating particular offenders more severely than any other state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jonas“An enhanced sentence is justifiable under these circumstances because the probationer has committed a new offense while still under court restraint because of his most recent crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Waits
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.