Gregg v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Jackson (1998), Snyder v. City of Alexandria (1994)
39 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 Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Lassiter
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne who is `guilty' cannot occupy the status of `innocent' so as to qualify under the expungement statute as a person whose charge has been `otherwise dismissed.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The General Assembly finds that arrest records can be a hindrance to an innocent citizen's ability to obtain employment, an education and to obtain credit. It further finds that the police and court records of those of its citizens who have been absolutely pardoned for crimes for which they have been unjustly convicted can also be a hindrance. This chapter is intended to protect such persons from the unwarranted damage which may occur as a result of being arrested and convicted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“causes or may cause circumstances which constitute a manifest injustice”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Daniel v. Com. · In re Wilmoth
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.