Topic #2785

9 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 111 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 People v. Sharpe.

#	Case	Flag	Canonical passage	Citers
1	People v. Sharpe Anchor ill · 2005	green	“contends that the penalty in question was not determined according to the seriousness of the offense.”	21
2	People v. Scott ill · 2000	green	“to constitutional matters which have not been, and could not have been, previously adjudicated.”	18
3	People v. Sharpe ill · 2005	green	“cruel, degrading, or so wholly disproportionate to the offense committed as to shock the moral sense of the community.”	13
4	People v. Petrenko ill · 2010	green	“reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”	13
5	People v. Sharpe ill · 2005	green	“cruel, degrading, or so wholly disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community.”	12
6	People v. Hernandez illappct · 2008	green	“the community's changing standard of moral decency.”	12
7	People v. Hernandez illappct · 2008	green	“to determine whether a penalty shocks the moral sense of the community, we must consider objective evidence as well as the community's changing standard of moral decency.”	11
8	People v. Harris ill · 2018	green	“based primarily on scientific research”	7
9	People v. Stewart ill · 1984	green	“through the lens of hindsight.”	4

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.

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Topic #2785