427 So. 2d 148 - Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 2010
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wade v. Hunter · Illinois v. Somerville · Crist v. Bretz · United States v. Josef Perez · Gori v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“Where the punishment prescribed by the legislature is severe merely by reason of its extent, as distinguished from its nature, there is no collision with the Eighth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ware v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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