Wallace v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

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

1. “conclusory assertions that the Delaware Constitution has been violated will be considered to be waived on appeal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Betts v. State · Burrell v. State

2. “the United States Supreme Court, in Roper , would not have recognized a sentence of life without parole as an acceptable alternative to death as a punishment for juveniles who commit intentional Murder in the First Degree, if such a sentence would violate the Eighth Amendment. Accordingly, we hold that Wallace's argument to the contrary without merit.”

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