Gregg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Williams v. State (2011), Thompson v. State (2009)
49 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 District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne · Blake v. State · Langston v. Riffe · Ross v. State Board of Elections · Mason 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[bjiological evidence” to include “any blood, hair, saliva, semen, epithelial cells, buccal cells or other bodily substances from which genetic marker groupings may be obtained.” Crim. Proc. § 8-201(a)(2). 17 . S.B. 486 was the Senate version of the bill that became Crim. Proc. § 8-301. 18 . H.B. 366 was the House of Delegates version of the bill that became Crim. Proc. § 8-301. 19 . We have generally held that “remedial statutes are those which provide a remedy, or improve or facilitate remedies already existing for the enforcement of rights and the redress of injuries.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(c) Subject to subsection (d) of this section, a court shall order DNA testing if the court finds that: (1) a reasonable probability exists that the DNA testing has the scientific potential to produce exculpatory or mitigating evidence relevant to a claim of wrongful conviction or sentencing; and (2) the requested DNA test employs a method of testing generally accepted within the relevant scientific community.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Givens v. State · Jackson v. State“Notwithstanding any other law governing postconviction relief, a person who is convicted of a violation of § 2-201, § 2-204, § 2-207, or §§ 3-303 through 3-306 of the Criminal Law Article may file a petition: (1) for DNA testing of scientific identification evidence that the State possesses as provided in subsection (j) of this section and that is related to the judgment of conviction; or (2) for a search by a law enforcement agency of a law enforcement data base or log for the purpose of identifying the source of physical evidence used for DNA testing.”
3 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.