State v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1976
13 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 State v. Lee · State v. Brandle · State v. Brown · State v. Raney · State v. Barton
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Applications for new trials when based on the ground of newly discovered evidence should be received with extreme caution. State v. Stovall, 154 La. 544 , 97 So. 854 ; State v. Lee, 173 La. 966 , 139 So. 302, 309 . “The granting or refusing of a motion for a new trial rests within the discretion of the trial judge, and his denial of the motion will not be disturbed by this court except for an abuse of the judicial discretion. State v. Barton, 178 La. 859 , 152 So. 546 ; State v. Brandle, 187 La. 945 , 175 So. 628 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bell
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.