Brighton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2014
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. Alabama · 762 So. 2d 879 - Brooks v. State · 970 So. 2d 312 - McDuffie v. State · Washington v. State · Horsley 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Miller provides little direction on what the trial court may or may not do regarding the differing possible sentencing permutations. We do know, at a minimum, that the trial court may sentence a juvenile defendant to life without parole where the trial court has considered all the Miller factors “should the court upon reconsideration deem such sentence justified.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.