178 W. Va. 505 - State v. Buck’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 1999
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Hutto v. Davis · Ruffin v. Austin · 170 W. Va. 428 - State v. Buck · 172 W. Va. 266 - State v. Cooper
Most-quoted passages
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“Article III, Section 5 of the West Virginia Constitution, which contains the cruel and unusual punishment counterpart to the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, has an express statement of the proportionality principle: `Penalties shall be proportioned to the character and degree of the offence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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