← All Authorities
United States intellectual disabilityeighth amendment

Hamm v. Smith

604 U. S. 1 (2024)
JurisdictionUnited States
CourtSupreme Court of the United States
Year2024
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Where a capital defendant has multiple IQ scores bearing on an Atkins intellectual-disability claim, a court may not treat the lower bound of the standard-error range of the single lowest score as per se dispositive; the per curiam Court vacated and remanded because the Eleventh Circuit's opinion was ambiguous as to whether it applied such a per se rule or a holistic, multi-score assessment.

Area of Law

General

Related Cases

Klein v. Martin 607 U. S. 213 (2026)
Ellingburg v. United States 607 U.S. ___ (2026)
Inc. v. Palmquist 607 U.S. 421 (2026)

Ask CommonBench about this case

Get a detailed analysis of Hamm v. Smith and how it applies to your situation.

Explain Hamm v. Smith