State v. MacE’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2015
15 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'if the complainant cannot [show that he will suffer a distinct and palpable injury], then [the court] will move to the second step of determining whether anyone else would have a more direct interest in the issues who can more adequately litigate the issues.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Excessive bail shall not be required; excessive fines shall not be imposed; nor shall cruel and unusual punishments be inflicted. Persons arrested or imprisoned shall not be treated with unnecessary rigor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Herrera · State v. Houston“[a] criminal punishment may be cruel and unusual when it is barbaric, excessive, or disproportional to the offense committed.”
3 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.