People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he better practice is to give the oath to truly try the case solely to the jurors selected to hear the case . . . absent any showing of prejudice by the defendant, the administration of the oath to the panel of jurors [after challenges for cause *Page 241 were completed and] before the exercise of peremptory challenges [did] not constitute reversible error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 721 So. 2d 239 - Deramus v. State

2. “Based upon the foregoing analysis and the facts of this case, we find that Smith's statutorily mandated sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole for forty years for committing the crime of first degree murder is not disproportionate, and does not violate the Eighth Amendment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Cisneros

3. “A sentence of imprisonment for a very long term of years, the effect of which is to deny a prisoner eligibility for parole until a time beyond his life expectancy, does not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition of imposition of cruel and unusual punishment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Cisneros