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4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 55 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 | green | “we generally defer to the legislature in the sentencing arena because the legislature is institutionally better equipped to gauge the seriousness of various offenses and to fashion sentences accordingly.” | 24 |
| 2 | People v. Sharpe | green | “to overcome this presumption, the party challenging the statute must clearly establish that it violates the constitution.” | 19 |
| 3 | People v. Patterson | green | “constitutional challenges carry the heavy burden of successfully rebutting the strong judicial presumption that statutes are constitutional.” | 9 |
| 4 | People v. Rizzo | green | “that presumption applies with equal force to legislative enactments that declare and define conduct constituting a crime and determine the penalties imposed for such conduct.” | 3 |
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.