State v. Bishop

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that severe punishment for sodomy on a child is “justified by the effects of the crime on the victims, the prevalence of the crime in society, the defenselessness of the victims, and the high degree of recidivism by offenders”
• deciding the issue of cruel and unusual punishment
• deciding the issue of cruel and unusual punishment
• upholding constitutionality of minimum mandatory sentencing upon conviction of sodomy on a child
• “Crimes against children are usually looked upon as more heinous than those committed against adults[.]”
• \Crimes against children are usually looked upon as more heinous than those committed against adults(.]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

46 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. James
  Utah Supreme Court· 1991-10-15· cited 163×
• State v. Shickles
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-06-24· cited 137×
• Condemarin v. University Hospital
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-05-01· cited 131×
• State v. Copeland
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-12-06· cited 115×
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield v. State
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-07-19· cited 110×
• State v. Young
  Utah Supreme Court· 1993-03-17· cited 103×
• Monson v. Carver
  Utah Supreme Court· 1996-12-06· cited 97×
• State v. Houston
  Utah Supreme Court· 2015-03-13· cited 94×
• State v. Lafferty
  Utah Supreme Court· 2001-02-23· cited 89×
• State v. Fulton
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-05-28· cited 73×
• State v. Gentry
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-12-01· cited 61×
• State v. Bell
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-11-28· cited 60×
• State v. Lopes
  Utah Supreme Court· 1999-03-16· cited 56×
• State v. Bartlett
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1992-05-08· cited 48×
• State v. Russell
  Utah Supreme Court· 1990-04-18· cited 43×
• State v. Bartlett
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 43×
• Zissi v. State Tax Com'n of Utah
  Utah Supreme Court· 1992-10-27· cited 42×
• State v. Gardner
  Utah Supreme Court· 1997-09-30· cited 37×
• State v. Egbert
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-09-28· cited 37×
• State v. Green
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-06-14· cited 29×

Cites

29 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-09· cited 2,938×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Rummel v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-18· cited 2,234×
• City of New Orleans v. Dukes
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-25· cited 1,863×
• Ramos v. Lamm
  Tenth Circuit· 1980-09-25· cited 908×
• Tigner v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1940-06-03· cited 558×
• Ex Parte United States
  Supreme Court· 1916-12-04· cited 540×
• Bowring v. Godwin
  Fourth Circuit· 1977-03-18· cited 503×
• Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-23· cited 352×
• Malan v. Lewis
  Utah Supreme Court· 1984-05-01· cited 160×
• United States v. Burnison
  Supreme Court· 1950-03-13· cited 94×
• State v. McCoy
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1971-06-25· cited 76×
• Thomas E. Meloon v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison
  First Circuit· 1977-10-31· cited 57×
• Baker v. Matheson
  Utah Supreme Court· 1979-12-28· cited 50×
• State v. Amicone
  Utah Supreme Court· 1984-09-25· cited 44×
• State v. Jackson
  Montana Supreme Court· 1983-10-21· cited 38×
• In re Flint
  Utah Supreme Court· 1903-02-13· cited 37×