Romine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably 705 So. 2d 307 - Holland v. State (1997), Isaacs v. State (1989)
6 federal appellate · 101 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 Allen v. United States · Gregg v. State · Waters v. State · Gilreath v. State · Spivey v. State
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t does not follow that, because the consequences of a hung jury on the question of sentence differ from the consequences of a hung jury on the question of guilt, the decision of whether the jury is truly deadlocked must be taken from the sound discretion of the trial judge and given to the jury. “In contrast to the policy codified in Delaware law, under Georgia law a jury is expected to review the evidence and to endeavor to reach unanimity ‘one way or the other’ on the question of sentence, and, if possible, to affirmatively and unanimously recommend either death or mercy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Booth v. State“the general rule in this state is that a motion for mistrial based on the length of the jury’s deliberation is within the sound discretion of the trial court. [Cits.] Cofield v. State, 247 Ga. 98, 113 ( 274 SE2d 530 ) (1981). Moreover, the trial court is not bound to accept the jury’s feeling that it is hopelessly deadlocked. Todd v. State, 243 Ga. 539, 542 ( 255 SE2d 5 ) (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No attorney at law in a criminal case shall argue to or in the presence of the jury that a defendant, if convicted, may not be required to suffer the full penalty imposed by the court or jury because pardon, parole, or clemency of any nature may be granted by the Governor, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, or other proper authority vested with the right to grant clemency.”
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.