Grattan v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
61
cited by 61 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
61 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · Koon v. United States · Dusky v. United States · Washington v. Texas · Taylor 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`fairly supports the [circuit] court's action'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[trial] court by definition abuses its discretion when it makes an error of law. . . . The abuse-of-discretion standard includes review to determine that the discretion was not guided by erroneous legal conclusions.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Only when reasonable jurists could not differ can we say an abuse of discretion has occurred.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.