State v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2019 · most notably Holmes v. South Carolina (2006), State v. Hamilton (2001)
8 federal appellate · 87 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.
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence which can have no other effect than to cast a bare suspicion on another, or to raise a conjectural inference as to the commission of the crime by another.... [Bjefore such testimony can be received, there must be such proof of connection with it, such a train of facts or circumstances, as tends clearly to point out such other person as the guilty party.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an abuse of discretion, a commission of legal error in its exercise, and that the rights of the appellant have been thereby prejudiced”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.