Kelly v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.3d 686 · 2017
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · Miller v. Alabama · Miller v. Alabama · Johnson v. Texas · Montgomery v. Louisiana
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“average life expectancy of an inmate sentenced to life in prison is 58 years; for African-Americans . . . the average life expectancy is 56; and for juveniles sentenced to life the average is 50 1/2 years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Gulley“Miller applies not just to sentences of natural life, but also to sentences so long that, although set out as a term of years, they are in reality a life sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“children are constitutionally different from adults for purposes of sentencing”
1 later decision 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.