Whitten v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “So long as [legislators] do not provide cruel and unusual punishments, such as disgraced the civilization of former ages, and make one shudder with horror to read of them, as drawing, quartering, burning, etc., the Constitution does not put any limit upon legislative discretion.”
• ―So long as [legislators] do not provide cruel and unusual punishments, such as disgraced the civilization of former ages, and make one shudder with horror to read of them, as drawing, quartering, burning, etc., the Constitution does not put any limit upon legislative discretion.‖

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Harmelin v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 4,521×
• Fleming v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-12-01· cited 141×
• State v. Houston
  Utah Supreme Court· 2015-03-13· cited 94×
• Sims v. Balkcom
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1964-05-07· cited 51×
• Lambeth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-04-09· cited 30×
• State v. Feilen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1912-09-03· cited 27×
• New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Russell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1960-10-11· cited 26×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-04-06· cited 19×
• Plain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1878-01-15· cited 17×
• Hill v. Stynchcombe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-02-06· cited 16×
• Harris v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-05-09· cited 16×
• Fitts v. City of Atlanta
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1905-01-26· cited 15×
• Davis v. Berry
  S.D. Iowa· 1914-06-24· cited 15×
• Conley v. Pate
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 12×
• Mickle v. Henrichs
  D. Nevada· 1918-05-25· cited 12×
• Dutton v. Smart
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-04-07· cited 9×
• Milledge v. Boyett
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1960-10-25· cited 6×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1920-02-13· cited 6×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-03-18· cited 2×
• State v. Houston
  Utah Supreme Court· 2015-02-24· cited 2×