State v. Silvey’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
December 2014
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lewis v. Gober · Mizuno v. Salisbury · State v. Brown · State v. Sumowski · State v. Simmons
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly, many people might agree that spanking is an acceptable form of disciplining children. Yet, it would defy the conscience to find that beating a two-year-old child in such a manner as to leave the type and number of bruises described in the record does not constitute cruel and inhuman punishment. A finding that this beating does not constitute cruel and inhuman punishment would also defy the law. Direct evidence that Defendant struck M_with enough force to cause these bruises is sufficient to support the trial court’s finding that this beating constituted cruel and inhuman punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Still
How this case has been treated — in progress
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