Greene v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Valdez v. State (2008), Jackson v. State (2001)
4 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Berger v. United States · Furman v. Georgia · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States v. Young
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constitutional rights are personal and may not be asserted vicariously.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“arguments of counsel are not evidence, as I've told you earlier, and neither are the personal beliefs of counsel as to—as to the implications of that evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newman v. State“The strongest factor against reversal on the grounds that the prosecutor made an objectionable remark is that it was provoked by defense counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.