Green v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 1982 · most notably Blackburn v. State (1973), People v. Nitti (1924)
38 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Hillmon · Alexander v. United States · Commonwealth v. Trefethen · Carver v. United States · Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Buck
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To discharge a loaded revolver does not mean to throw the revolver as a missile from the hand, but to free the revolver of the missile with which it is loaded, by firing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nicholas v. State
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.