State Ex Rel. Simmons v. Roper

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding it unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment to execute individuals who were under 18 years of age at the time of their capital crime
• holding it unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment to execute individuals who were under 18 years of age at the time of their capital crime
• relying on the office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention’s statistical briefing to support a point
• state court judges are bound to follow the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States
• state court judges are bound to follow the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States
• where declaration that imposition of the death penalty on juvenile offenders was categorically unconstitutional was retroactively applied because it was a substantive rule under Teague, and thus applied without discussion of Linkletter-Stovall

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Salinas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-05-18· cited 1,474×
• State of Iowa v. Denem Anthony Null
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-08-16· cited 303×
• Commonwealth v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-21· cited 218×
• Ex Parte Walker
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2007-03-30· cited 78×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-12-12· cited 57×
• State v. Richard
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2009-11-17· cited 29×
• State ex rel. Carr v. Wallace
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2017-07-11· cited 26×
• Willbanks v. Missouri Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2017-07-11· cited 23×
• City of St. Louis v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2012-11-13· cited 16×
• Beach v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2007-03-01· cited 10×
• State v. Buchanan
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2003-09-30· cited 8×
• Culpepper v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-01-04
• Cole v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2007-01-30
• Kenneth Johnson v. Rent-A-Center and Kelli Stangle
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2014-11-04
• In Re: William L. Branch v. Jay Cassady, in His Capacity as Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2015-01-13
• Salinas, Jorge Alfredo
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-05-18
• Ronald Johnson v. State of Missouri
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2019-07-16

Cites

33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Teague v. Lane
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 6,602×
• Stovall v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 6,066×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Atkins v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 3,384×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Trop v. Dulles
  Supreme Court· 1958-03-31· cited 2,182×
• Rodriguez De Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 2,022×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Ford v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,525×
• Reed v. Ross
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-27· cited 1,249×
• Cooper v. Aaron
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-06· cited 1,010×
• Thompson v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-29· cited 617×
• Albrecht v. Herald Co.
  Supreme Court· 1968-04-08· cited 449×
• Hohn v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1998-06-22· cited 439×
• Stanford v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-30· cited 438×
• Maryland v. Baltimore Radio Show, Inc. Et Al.
  Supreme Court· 1950-01-09· cited 323×
• United States v. Hatter
  Supreme Court· 2001-05-21· cited 190×
• Rodriguez v. Suzuki Motor Corp.
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1999-06-01· cited 134×