Jacobs v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “includes those rules that place “certain kinds of primary, private individual conduct beyond the power of the criminal-law making authority to proscribe,’’ Teague, 489 U.S. at 307 , 109 S.Ct. 1060 , and includes rules "prohibiting a certain category of punishment for a class of defendants because of their status or offense.” Penry, 492 U.S. at 330 , 109 S.Ct. 2934 .”

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

2. “[W]e reaffirm our commitment to the general rule that ‘courts must sentence defendants under the statute in effect at the time the defendant committed the offense.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Corcoran v. Neal