Pickard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2024
10 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 Davis v. Alaska · Gregg v. Georgia · Coker v. Georgia · State v. Deffenbaugh · State ex rel. Jurich v. McFadden ex rel. White Pine County
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). Further, Flores-Martinez fails to demonstrate that NRS 200.366(3)(b)s mandatory sentence is excessive. See Pickard v. State, 94 Nev. 681, 684 , 585 P.2d 1342, 1344 (1978) C [A] punishment is 'excessive' and unconstitutional if it (1) makes no measurable contribution to acceptable goals of punishment and hence is nothing more than the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering; or (2) is grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Although it is distinctly arguable that appellant's sentence in this case is "grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime," this court would feel unjustified in so concluding, upon the record before us. Accordingly, although we affirm appellant's conviction, we have ordered appellant's case placed on the agenda for consideration of the Nevada Board of Pardons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Jonas
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