State v. Harris

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that unless a comparison of “the sentence imposed . . . with the crime committed. . . . leads to an inference of gross disproportionality, the inquiry ends— the sentence is constitutional”
• the precise contours of the federal proportionality guarantee are unclear
• the precise contours of the federal proportionality guarantee are unclear
• the precise contours of the federal proportionality guarantee are unclear

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. David E. Walton, Jr.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-22· cited 135×
• Van Tran v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-12-04· cited 118×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-05-05· cited 70×
• Rea v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2001-10-03· cited 44×
• Stuart v. STATE OF TENNESSEE DEPT. OF SAFETY
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-03-02· cited 41×
• State v. Wood
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-05-07· cited 34×
• State v. Jenkins
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-10-28· cited 29×
• Howell v. Metropolitan Sexually Oriented Business Licensing Board
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-11-05· cited 3×
• S.A.M.D. v. J.P.D.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-09-30
• State of Tennessee v. Dickie Ray Bain
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-09-17
• Gerraldo White v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-08-01
• State of Tennessee v. Todd Joseph Sweet a/k/a Jamie Lee Turpin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-12-16
• State of Tennessee v. Kenneth Hayes
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-08-19
• State of Tennessee v. Rhonda Louise Medley
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-07-12
• State of Tennessee v. Kenneth Clay
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-03-15
• State of Tennessee v. Gary Dwayne Johnson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-03-07
• State of Tennessee v. Deonray J. Fisk
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-07-20
• State of Tennessee v. Darryl Hubbard
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-04-19
• State of Tennessee v. Jason Clinard
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-09-09
• State of Tennessee v. Milton Lebron Byrd
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-09-25

Cites

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

• Harmelin v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 4,521×
• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Robinson v. California
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 2,369×
• Rummel v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-18· cited 2,234×
• People v. Dillon
  California Supreme Court· 1983-09-01· cited 1,034×
• In Re Lynch
  California Supreme Court· 1972-12-04· cited 852×
• State v. Ramseur
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-03-05· cited 731×
• State v. Black
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1991-08-05· cited 445×
• People v. Bullock
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1992-06-16· cited 252×
• People v. Lorentzen
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1972-03-09· cited 181×
• State v. Des Marets
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1983-01-26· cited 179×
• In Re Foss
  California Supreme Court· 1974-03-14· cited 169×
• State v. Guajardo
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1983-02-23· cited 124×
• James Robert McQueary v. James Blodgett, Superintendent, Wsp Corrections, Dept of Indeterminate Sentencing Review Board
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-01-10· cited 123×
• Cozzolino v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1979-06-11· cited 121×
• Workman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1968-06-14· cited 114×
• State v. Evans
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1952-06-16· cited 105×
• Cepulonis v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-10-08· cited 58×
• Pearson v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-03-10· cited 53×
• State v. Bartlett
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1992-05-08· cited 48×