29 So. 3d 738 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · United States v. Cronic
Most-quoted passages
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“[AJttempts to define precisely at what point a term of years becomes a life sentence ... [are] of limited utility. Estimated life expectancy is just that — an estimate. The reality is that some persons live beyond their life expectancies while others do not. To hold that a defendant’s sentence must be a certain number of years or months less than his life expectancy would place unwarranted emphasis on a number that is itself only a rough approximation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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