Pepe-Frazier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ewing v. California · Sanders v. State · Adams v. State · Moon v. State · Humphrey v. Wilson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] sentence which is not otherwise cruel and unusual does not become so simply because it is mandatory. Legislative enactments constitute the clearest and most objective evidence of how contemporary society views a particular punishment. As a result, the issue of punishment is generally one for the legislative branch, and legislative discretion is deferred to unless the sentence imposed shocks the conscience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a person convicted of the offense of aggravated child molestation shall be punished by imprisonment for life or by a split sentence that is a term of imprisonment for not less than 25 years and not exceeding life imprisonment, followed by probation for life[.]”
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.