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Budder v. Addison’s Empirical Analysis

851 F.3d 1047 · 2017

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
12
states following
April 2025
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Williams v. Taylor · Harmelin v. Michigan

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

  1. “any sentence that denies a juvenile nonhomicide offender a realistic opportunity to obtain release in his or her lifetime [.]”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “[States] may not take a single offense and slice it into multiple sub offenses in order to avoid Graham 's rule that juvenile offenders who do not commit homicide may not be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “[b]y denying the defendant the right to reenter the community, the State [impermissibly] makes an irrevocable judgment about that person's value and place in society”
    2 later decisions 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.