Sexton v. Persson’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would be presented with, among other things, aggravating and mitigating evidence concerning the defendant's character or background, and circumstances of the offense”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“decid[ing] whether to impose life imprisonment with the possibility of parole or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“except that a person who was under 18 years of age at the time the offense was committed is not subject to a sentence of death.”
1 later decision 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.