Winston v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably State v. Gordon (1971), Roach v. State (1966)
30 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 Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Thompson v. State of Utah · Kring v. State of Missouri · Thompson v. State of Missouri · Glover v. State
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... ex post facto and inoperative as to the offense charged against the accused, in that, if enforced, it would operate to withdraw a substantial protection which surrounded him at the time of the commission of the alleged offense, to wit, the right to a recommendation to mercy by the jury as a matter of grace, irrespective of the evidence or record. . .” Id. p. 575. As the Supreme Court later noted in Todd v. State, 228 Ga. 746, 749 ( 187 SE2d 831 ),”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall be sentenced to undergo the longest period of time and labor prescribed for the punishment of the offense of which he stands convicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clemmons 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.