Cardwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 202 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Andrew Conley v. State of Indiana (2012), Martez Brown v. State of Indiana (2014)
1 federal appellate · 202 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 Gall v. United States · Anglemyer v. State · Childress v. State · Lopez v. State · Morgan 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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“our sense of the culpability of the defendant, the severity of the crime, the damage done to others, and myriad other facts that come to light in a given case.”
64 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although a trial court may have acted within its lawful discretion in determining a sentence, Article VII, Sections 4 and 6 of the Indiana Constitution authorize independent appellate review and revision of a sentence through Indiana Appellate Rule 7(B), which provides that a court may revise a sentence authorized by statute if, after due consideration of the trial court's decision, the Court finds that the sentence is inappropriate in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender. The burden is on the defendant to persuade us that his sentence is inappropriate.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage“sentencing is principally a discretionary function in which the trial court's judgment should receive considerable deference.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.