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5 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 31 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Walton v. Arizona.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walton v. Arizona Anchor | red | “especially heinous, cruel or depraved” | 17 |
| 2 | Carey Dean Moore v. Harold W. Clarke, Carey Dean Moore v. Harold W. Clarke | green | “a state supreme court may salvage a facially-vague statute by construing it to provide the sentencing body with objective criteria for applying the statute.” | 4 |
| 3 | State v. Joubert | green | “were coldly planned as part of a repetitive program of self-gratification, involving immature victims selected on the basis of their availability.” | 4 |
| 4 | State v. Moore | green | “provided sufficient guidance to the sentencing authority 'so as to minimize the risk of wholly arbitrary and capricious action.” | 4 |
| 5 | State v. Joubert | green | “the victims selected by the defendant would, by his fantasized standards, be somewhat defenseless and consist of prepubescent boys or women fitting the pictorial description gleaned from detective magazine covers.” | 2 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.