Giles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Rogers v. State (1979), 125 Ill. 2d 50 - People v. Evans (1988)
126 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Kirby v. Illinois
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any hard and fast rule as to age would tend to defeat the ends of justice, so the term youth must be considered as relative and this factor weighed in the light of varying conditions and circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gardner · State v. Turner““The Defendant was, beyond a reasonable doubt, previously convicted of another capital felony or of a felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person. The Defendant did, beyond a reasonable doubt, in the commission of the capital felony, knowingly create a great risk of death to one (1) or more persons in addition to the victim. The capital felony was, beyond a reasonable doubt, committed for the purpose of avoiding or preventing a lawful arrest or effecting an escape from custody. The capital felony was not committed by another person and the Defendant was not an accomplice or his participation relatively minor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pickens v. State“I. The capital felony murder was committed while the defendant was under extreme mental or emotional disturbance. II. The capital felony murder was committed while the capacity of the defendant to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law was impaired as a result of mental disease or defect, intoxication, or drug abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State
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.