State v. Shafer’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
November 2009
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Eddings v. Oklahoma · Payne v. Tennessee · Skipper v. South Carolina · Simmons v. South Carolina · Jones v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Simmons is inapplicable under [South Carolina's] new sentencing scheme because life without the possibility of parole is not the only legally available sentence alternative to death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'life imprisonment means until the death of the defendant.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I charge you that the term “life imprisonment” means imprisonment until the death of the offender. No person sentenced to life imprisonment is eligible for parole, community supervision, or any early release program, nor is the person eligible to receive any work credits, education credits, good conduct credits, or any other credits that would reduce the mandatory life imprisonment required by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Kelly
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.