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Malvo v. Mathena’s Empirical Analysis

893 F.3d 265 · 2018

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
5
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

8 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Teague v. Lane · Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · United States v. Broce

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

  1. “Miller requires that before sentencing a juvenile to life without parole , the sentencing judge [must] 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 majority
  2. “Even if a court considers a child's age before sentencing him or her to a lifetime in prison, that sentence still violates the Eighth Amendment for a child whose crime reflects 'unfortunate yet transient immaturity.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[t]he Eighth Amendment does not foreclose the possibility that persons convicted of nonhomicide crimes committed before adulthood will remain behind bars for life,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.