State v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
February 2015
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Furman v. Georgia · Harmelin v. Michigan · Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · State v. Allen
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he [Supreme] Court expressly intimated that a natural life sentence for a juvenile who committed murder is not unconstitutionally cruel and unusual”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Andrews
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.