553 U.S. 16 (2008) Cited 60 times 2 Legal Analyses
Recognizing that where constitutionally sufficient link between taxing State and value it wishes to tax is founded on State's contacts with source of value, "apportioned tax base should be determined by applying the State's ... apportionment formula" to entity that is source of value
Holding that the prisoners, who argued that the Arkansas Method of Execution Act violated the due process clause because its secrecy denied them “an opportunity to litigate” their claim that the execution protocol violated the Eighth Amendment, failed to state a plausible due process access-to-the-courts claim
136 U.S. 436 (1890) Cited 481 times 7 Legal Analyses
Holding that punishment of death by electrocution does not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which, like the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, "requires that no different or higher punishment shall be imposed upon one than is imposed upon all for like offenses. . . . [b]ut was not designed to interfere with the power of the State to protect the lives, liberties, and property of its citizens"