Atkins v. Virginia
536 U.S. 304 (2002) Cited 2,780 times 54 Legal AnalysesHolding that the execution of mentally retarded offenders violates the Eighth Amendment
Moore v. Texas
137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) Cited 193 timesHolding a Texas appellate court erred in applying a set of non-clinical criteria known as the Briseno factors in evaluating a defendant's claim of intellectual disability because some of the Briseno factors had implicitly been rejected by the medical community (in part because they were based on outdated stereotypes) and all the Briseno factors were little more than lay perceptions of intellectual disability untethered to any clinical medical standard