State v. Ira’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
3
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Eddings v. Oklahoma · Rummel v. Estelle · Coker v. Georgia · Hicks v. Oklahoma · Thompson v. Oklahoma
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not amenable to treatment or rehabilitation as a child in available facilities,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]f [Ira] had eventually killed his victim, perhaps to protect himself from prosecution for his other crimes, he could have received a life sentence as an adult, but would have become eligible for parole after a "mere" thirty years. Thus, although [he] commits crimes which, however gruesome, are less than first degree murder, he receives a sentence that is effectively fifty percent longer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ira v. Janecka“[f]or one so young, this is effectively a life sentence. One who goes into prison a teenager and comes out a man at the age of retirement has forfeited most of his life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ira v. Janecka
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.