Garrett v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
July 1983
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · Branzburg v. Hayes · Pell v. Procunier · Estes v. Texas · Jurek v. Texas
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stahl v. State
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.