P. v. Perez CA4/3’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
1 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · Miller v. Alabama · Graham v. Florida · 34 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Dillon · Graham v. Florida
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“down as cruel and unusual any sentence against anyone under the age of 18 where the perpetrator still has substantial life expectancy left at the time of eligibility for parole”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he issue of how long someone under the age of 18 may be sentenced to prison has been the subject of considerable judicial attention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“among those 'exquisitely rare' cases which merit reversal on traditional disproportionality review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Johnson
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.