Malvo v. Mathena’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[e]ven if a court considers a child's age before sentencing him or her to a lifetime in prison, that sentence still violates the Eighth Amendment for a child whose crime reflects 'unfortunate yet transient immaturity.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mejia-Velez v. United States · Larry W. Newton, Jr. v. State of Indiana

2. “[l]ike other substantive rules, Miller is retroactive because it necessarily carr[ies] a significant risk that a defendant-here, the vast majority of juvenile offenders-faces a punishment that the law cannot impose upon him”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Malvo v. Mathena

3. “would have to find Petitioner implicitly or indirectly waived the Eighth Amendment right announced in Miller” when he agreed to be sentenced to LWOP, which was”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Larry W. Newton, Jr. v. State of Indiana