State v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• Acknowledging that while propensity for violence is “an important factor[,]” it is “not [the] exclusive” factor to be considered in a recidivist analysis
• finding life sentence disproportionate for an assault conviction that involved a firearm, with prior felonies of breaking and entering, forgery, and false pretenses
• finding life sentence disproportionate for an assault conviction that involved a firearm, with prior felonies of breaking and entering, forgery, and false pretenses
• stating that unlawful assault is “unquestionably a violent crime”
• stating that unlawful assault is \unquestionably a violent crime\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Martinez
  California Court of Appeal· 1999-05-12· cited 125×
• Brown v. Mayle
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-02-07· cited 35×
• State v. Richardson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2003-12-08· cited 15×
• State v. Jones
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-06-26· cited 14×
• State v. Davis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-02-24· cited 8×
• State v. Barker
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-10-22· cited 6×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-02-07· cited 1×
• State of West Virginia v. Mark A. Kilmer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-11-14
• State of West Virginia v. Johnnie Franklin Wills
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-11-22
• Danny Hundley v. Patrick Mirandy, Warden
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2018-04-05
• Ralph Terry, Superintendent v. J.D. Lambert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2018-10-10
• State of West Virginia v. Travis Norwood
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2019-05-30
• State of West Virginia v. John Henry Hoyle
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2019-11-22
• John Howard Williams v. J.T. Binion, Superintendent
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2019-12-20
• State of West Virginia v. Matthew Flanders
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2020-06-03

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• Wanstreet v. Bordenkircher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-03-10· cited 241×
• State v. Hatfield
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-01-26· cited 169×
• State v. Vance
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-01-22· cited 156×
• State v. Beck
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-07-17· cited 140×
• State v. Fortner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-12-14· cited 92×
• State v. Byers
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1976-05-18· cited 55×
• State v. Stewart
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1977-12-20· cited 44×
• Marriott v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-04-22· cited 32×
• State v. McFarland
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-06-18· cited 31×
• State v. Deal
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-05-27· cited 22×
• State v. Oxier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-06-28· cited 11×