Wallace v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the mere recitation of a Delaware State Constitutional provision, without an analysis of the Jones factors, waives that argument on appeal
• finding conclusory statement that sentence violates the Delaware Constitution waived claim in both in this Court and the Supreme Court
• “The Eighth Amendment has been interpreted to prohibit only punishments that are disproportionate to the crime or are excessive.”
• “The Eighth Amendment has been interpreted to prohibit only punishments that are disproportionate to the crime or are excessive.”
• “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 [murder], if such a sentence would violate the Eighth Amendment”
• “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 [murder], if such a sentence would violate the Eighth Amendment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

28 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Andrew Conley v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2012-07-31· cited 392×
• State v. Bruegger
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2009-10-02· cited 342×
• Loggins v. Thomas
  Eleventh Circuit· 2011-09-07· cited 101×
• State v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2008-11-25· cited 61×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-10-25· cited 42×
• State v. Andrews
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2011-01-25· cited 39×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-04-06· cited 25×
• Bun v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 15×
• State v. Carrasquillo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2009-01-27· cited 10×
• State v. Pierce
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2010-01-21· cited 9×
• Burrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-03-11· cited 9×
• State v. Rivera
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2017-10-17· cited 8×
• State v. Holden
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2010-12-14· cited 7×
• Betts v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-11-03· cited 5×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-07-24· cited 5×
• Naples v. New Castle County
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-03-30
• Kenneth Loggins v. Thomas
  Eleventh Circuit· 2011-09-07
• Israel v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-06-20
• Fowler v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-09-29
• Biddle v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-04-12

Cites

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

• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Atkins v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 3,384×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Trop v. Dulles
  Supreme Court· 1958-03-31· cited 2,182×
• Coker v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 1,233×
• The United States v. Hudson and Goodwin
  Supreme Court· 1812-03-14· cited 761×
• Kennedy v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-25· cited 620×
• Stanford v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-30· cited 438×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• O'Neil v. Vermont
  Supreme Court· 1892-04-04· cited 298×
• Joseph Rodriguez v. Howard A. Peters, Iii, Director, Department of Corrections, State of Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-08-15· cited 131×
• Capano v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-10· cited 115×
• Sisson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-06-19· cited 97×
• Ortiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-01-25· cited 86×
• Dutton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-09-10· cited 82×
• People v. Launsburry
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1996-08-12· cited 75×
• State v. Sturgis
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-05-06· cited 63×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-12-12· cited 57×
• State v. Howell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-02-29· cited 56×
• Gerald Rice v. Keith Cooper
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-06-19· cited 54×