People v. Buffer’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 13701 (§ 20101 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · Miller v. Alabama · Miller v. Alabama · Graham v. Florida · 183 Ill. 2d 366 - People v. Coleman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mandatory term-of-years sentence that cannot be served in one lifetime has the same practical effect on a juvenile defendant's life as would an actual mandatory sentence of life without parole-in either situation, the juvenile will die in prison. Miller makes clear that a juvenile may not be sentenced to a mandatory, unsurvivable prison term without first considering in mitigation his youth, immaturity, and potential for rehabilitation.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'a person held in a general prison population has a life expectancy of about 64 years' and that this estimate 'probably overstates the average life expectancy for minors committed to prison for lengthy terms.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Court's holding required that life-without-parole sentences be based on judicial discretion rather than statutory mandates”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.