Green v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2025
15 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 Townsend v. Burke · Williams v. State of Oklahoma · United States Gypsum Co. v. Glander · Friedman v. United States · Smith v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(c) Pre-Sentence Investigation. (1) When Made. The court may in its discretion direct the State Board of Probation and Parole to make a pre-sentence investigation and report to the court before the imposition of sentence or the granting of probation. * * *. (2) Report. The report of the pre-sen-tence investigation shall contain any prior criminal record of the defendant and such information on his characteristics, his financial condition, and the circumstances affecting his behavior as may be helpful in imposing sentence or in granting probation or in the correctional treatment of the defendant, and such other information as may be required by the court. * * *(Emphasis additional)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Samson““But due process does not require surrounding the sentence procedure with the same constitutional and evidentiary safeguards attached to any hearing where determination of guilt is involved. Our practice whereby the judge, prior to sentence and in open court, gives to the defendant or his counsel, or both, opportunity to be heard, making inquiry as to any past criminal activity of the defendant so as to obtain an accurate background for proper formulation of sentence, and receiving arguments tending to influence his judicial discretion in passing judgment within statutory limits, complies fully with constitutional requirements.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. State“Due process, undefined in either constitution, does not restrict the State to any particular mode of procedure. It protects against the exercise of arbitrary governmental power and guarantees equal and impartial dispensation of law according to the settled course of judicial proceedings or in accordance with fundamental principles of distributive justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.