177 Conn. App. 242 - State v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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

1. “It is well established that federal constitutional law establishes a minimum national standard for the exercise of individual rights and does not inhibit state governments from affording higher levels of protection for such rights.... In several cases, our Supreme Court has concluded that the state constitution provides broader protection of individual rights than does the federal constitution.... It is by now well established that the constitution of Connecticut prohibits cruel and unusual punishments under the auspices of the dual due process provisions contained in article first, §§ 8 and 9. Those due process protections take as their hall-mark principles of fundamental fairness rooted in our state's unique common law, statutory, and constitutional traditions.... Although neither provision of the state constitution expressly references cruel or unusual punishments, it is settled constitutional doctrine that both of our due process clauses prohibit governmental infliction of cruel and unusual punishments.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 116 - State v. Moore

2. “[U]nder Miller , a sentencing court's obligation to consider youth related mitigating factors is limited to cases in which the court imposes a sentence of life, or its equivalent, without parole.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burrell v. State

3. “In ascertaining the contours of the protections afforded under our state constitution, we utilize a multifactor approach that we first adopted in [ Geisler ].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 116 - State v. Moore