Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Moore v. State (2001), Manuel v. State (2011)
31 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 282nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan · McGruder v. Puckett · Black v. State · Rhoades 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We initially make a threshold comparison of the gravity of the offense against the severity of the sentence, and then ask whether the sentence is grossly disproportionate to the offense. Only if we find such gross disproportionality do we then compare this sentence to the sentences imposed for similar crimes in this and other jurisdictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Jackson v. State“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor éxcessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” 2 . In relevant part, the provision states:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. State
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.