During his 34 years on the Court, Justice John Paul Stevens has written close to 400 majority opinions in nearly every area of the law. His legacy will include landmark rulings that invalidated the death penalty for mentally retarded persons, opened federal courts to detainees at Guantánamo Bay, struck down the Line Item Veto Act, rejected term limits for members of Congress and eliminated the mandatory nature of federal sentencing guidelines. What follows is a sample of his key majority rulings.
Gregg v. Georgia; Jurek v. Texas; Proffitt v. Florida (1976)
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