167 Conn. App. 744 - State v. Williams-Bey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 state decisions

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “that a sentencing court consider the defendant's chronological age and its hallmark features as a mitigating factor prior to sentencing a juvenile offender to life without parole or its functional equivalent.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 177 Conn. App. 242 - State v. Rivera · 174 Conn. App. 14 - State v. Ellis

2. “The judicial authority may at any time correct an illegal sentence or other illegal disposition, or it may correct a sentence imposed in an illegal manner or any other disposition made in an illegal manner.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 177 Conn. App. 242 - State v. Rivera · State v. Delgado

3. “a juvenile offender serving a life sentence or its functional equivalent is entitled to some meaningful opportunity to obtain release based on demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 177 Conn. App. 242 - State v. Rivera · 174 Conn. App. 14 - State v. Ellis