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← 426 S.C. 297 - State v. Slocumb

State v. Slocumb’s Empirical Analysis

2019

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
October 2020
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Teague v. Lane · William Marbury v. James Madison · Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · Oregon v. Hass · 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Neither Graham nor the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, currently prohibits the imposition of aggregate sentences for multiple offenses amounting to a de facto life sentence on a juvenile nonhomicide offender.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “We hold the principles enunciated in Miller ... apply ... to all juvenile offenders who may be subject to a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “a long line of Supreme Court precedent prohibits us from extending federal constitutional protections beyond the boundaries the Supreme Court itself has set.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.