State v. Augustus’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably State v. Trujillo (2002), State v. Tafoya (2010)
2 district · 42 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Rummel v. Estelle · State v. Madrigal · State v. Peters · State v. Sanchez
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“his thirty year sentence constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article II, Section 13 of the New Mexico Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tafoya“[i]t is rare that a term of incarceration, `which has been authorized by the Legislature, will be found to be excessively long or inherently cruel.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tafoya
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.