State v. Nathan’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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.

1. “Miller has no application to Nathan's second-degree murder conviction, which does not call for mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole, or to his multitude of nonhomicide convictions because Miller did not address the constitutional validity of 27 consecutive sentences, let alone the cumulative effect of such sentences.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 58 Kan. App. 2d 947 - Williams v. State

2. “[i]t is difficult to say that a defendant who receives a life sentence on a nonhomicide offense but who was at the same time convicted of homicide is not in some sense being punished in part for the homicide when the judge makes the sentencing determination”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Slocumb

3. “Although we do not foreclose a sentencer's ability to make that judgment in homicide cases, we require it to take into account how children are different, and how those differences counsel against irrevocably sentencing them to a lifetime in prison.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 58 Kan. App. 2d 947 - Williams v. State