Culverson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Chavez v. State (2009), Blume v. State (1996)
26 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 7 Cal. 3d 666 - People v. Chambers · 8 Cal. 3d 504 - People v. Najera · Lloyd v. State · Wise v. State · Tellis 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A sentence does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment unless the statute fixing punishment is 3Here, the only discretion available in sentencing was whether to irnpose the sentences consecutively or concurrently. The district court chose to impose the sentences consecutively, and we conclude that decision was not an abuse of discretion. SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 16 (0) 1947A atelia unconstitutional or the sentence is so unreasonably disproportionate to the offense as to shock the conscience.”
4 later decisions 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.