State v. Roth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 632 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 637 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Ramseur (1987), State v. Kelly (1984)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 632 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 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Benton v. Maryland · Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. DiFrancesco · United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co. · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey
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 637 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly unreasonable so as to shock the judicial conscience.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The court shall deal with a person who has been convicted of a crime of the first or second degree by imposing a sentence of imprisonment unless, having regard to the character and condition of the defendant, it is of the opinion that his imprisonment would be a serious injustice which overrides the need to deter such conduct by others.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“could not have reasonably been made upon a weighing of the relevant factors.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.