Graham v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 6 district · 798 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,030 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably J. D. B. v. North Carolina (2011), Heller v. District of Columbia (2011)
103 federal appellate · 6 district · 798 state decisions — followed in 43 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Yee v. City of Escondido · Graham v. Florida · 982 So. 2d 43 - Graham v. State
Cited together with Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · Graham v. Florida · Miller v. Alabama · Harmelin v. Michigan · Atkins v. Virginia
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 1,030 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Constitution prohibits the imposition of a life without parole sentence on a juvenile offender who did not commit homicide”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Nothing in the Court's opinion affects the imposition of a sentence to a term of years without the possibility of parole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.