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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 17 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 State v. Bertrand.

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1 State v. Bertrand Anchor
la · 2009
green “defendants argue that the use of non-unanimous verdicts has an insidious racial component, allows minority viewpoints to be ignored, and is likely to chill participation by the precise groups whose exclusion the constitution has proscribed.” 6
2 State v. Wilson
lactapp · 2015
green “grossly disproportionate to the severity of the offense or constitutes nothing more than needless infliction of pain and suffering.” 4
3 Snyder v. Perilloux
la · 2016
green “the articulation of the factual basis for a sentence is the goal of article 894.1, not rigid or mechanical compliance with its provisions.” 4
4 State v. Bradley
lactapp · 2019
green “in reviewing a sentence for excessiveness, the appellate court must consider the punishment and the crime in light of the harm to society and gauge whether the penalty is so disproportionate as to shock the court's sense of justice.” 3

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