Grady v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2008
23 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 Gallego v. United States · Brewer v. United States · 228 So. 2d 294 - Stunson v. State · 236 So. 2d 408 - Wright v. State · Wood 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether or not there is any indication or reasonable inference of probable tampering with the evidence or substitution of the evidence.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]atters regarding the chain of custody of evidence are largely left to the discretion of the trial judge, and `unless this judicial discretion has been so abused as to be prejudicial to the defendant, this Court will not reverse the ruling of the trial court.'”
5 later decisions 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.