State v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2018
14 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 Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Coleman v. Alabama · Foster v. California
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Excessiveness of punishment depends upon the circumstances of each case, and must be affirmatively shown by appellant. State v. Thomas, 94 Idaho 430 , 489 P.2d 1310 (1971); Lockard v. State, 92 Idaho 813 , 451 P.2d 1014 (1969); State v. Ross, 92 Idaho 709 , 449 P.2d 369 (1968); State v. Peterson, 87 Idaho 147 , 391 P.2d 846 (1964).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adams“it is just as likely that the jury assumed [the photo had been] taken by the police when the appellant was arrested on the charges for which he was presently being tried.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alwin“the photograph merely showed that appellant had been arrested and that it was not to be considered evidence that appellant had any prior criminal record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alwin
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.