White v. Premo’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
March 2022
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blakely v. Washington · Padilla v. Kentucky · Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · Miller v. Alabama · Miller v. Alabama
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts that have grappled with the issue of how lengthy a sentence must be to trigger the protections of Miller often reference Graham's instruction that juvenile offenders must retain a meaningful opportunity for release.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[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.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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