In re Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
January 2024
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Cronic · Bell Warden v. Cone · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Scarpa v. Dubois
Most-quoted passages
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“[i]nstead, ... [merely] offered a few remarks about petitioner's childhood, essentially repeating the information in the [pre-sentence investigation report]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Polk v. State“This Court has identified four goals of sentencing: punishment, prevention, rehabilitation, and deterrence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“); State v. Corliss , 168 Vt. 333 , 342, 721 A.2d 438 , 445 (1998) (considering”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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