Grooms v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Evitts v. Lucey (1985), State v. Thomas (2011)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · McMann v. Richardson · State v. Johnson · Dillane v. United States · State v. McBride
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot envision an advantage which could have been gained by withholding a request for th[ese] instruction[s.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“By not requesting that the jury be instructed to consider with caution the testimony of an accomplice, appellant’s counsel omitted a defense which might have negated [the witness’s] damning testimony.... [This] instruction ], if [it] had been requested and given, might have mitigated the effect of [the witness’s] testimony, hence reducing the chances of appellant’s conviction. No advantage could have been envisioned by appellant’s counsel in withholding [a] request! ] for [this] instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas
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.