State v. Gregg’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2013
18 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 Townsend v. Sain · Fare v. Michael C. · South Dakota v. Neville · Difronzo v. United States · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a request has been made to charge the jury on a lesser-included offense, the duty of the trial judge is determined by the evidence. If evidence has been presented which would support a conviction of a lesser charge, refusal to give the requested instruction would be reversible error. (Citations omitted). There must be sufficient evidence, however, when read in the light most favorable to the defendant, which would justify a jury in concluding that the greater offense was not committed and that a lesser offense was, in fact, committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Charger · State v. Disbrow“It is clear that the first sentence of the statute simply requires the jury to find the degree of the crime of which the defendant is guilty and include that finding in its verdict. It does not require a jury instruction on the same. The second sentence of the statute mandates that the accused can be convicted of only the lowest degree when there is a reasonable ground of doubt as to which of two or more degrees he is guilty. (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Disbrow“Homicide is manslaughter in the first degree when perpetrated: [[Image here]] (2) Without a design to effect death, and in the heat of passion, but in a cruel and unusual manner; (3) Without a design to effect death, but by means of a dangerous weapon; (4) Unnecessarily, either while resisting an attempt by the person killed to commit aucrime or after such attempt shall have failed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Black
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.