Ross v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
2
states following
October 1986
most recently cited
9 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Davis v. Georgia · Meeks v. Havener
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there [was] no credible testimony that the state knowingly and intentionally used perjured testimony at the trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. Hopper
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.