428 So. 2d 576 - Gilliard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Clemons v. Mississippi (1990)
1 federal appellate · 90 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 Giglio v. United States · Furman v. Georgia · Swain v. State of Alabama · Godfrey v. Georgia · Briggs v. Connecticut
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]ife is ten years and you are eligible then for parole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he trial court will not be put in error because of failure to permit a challenge for cause as long as peremptory challenges remain unused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The statement by the district attorney constituted error. Prosecuting attorneys often become overzealous in arguing capital cases, particularly when attorneys for the defendant attempt to overemphasize and exaggerate the real meaning of a life sentence in the penitentiary. Prosecuting attorneys should refrain from making prejudicial or erroneous remarks, even in response to argument of defense counsel. In the present case, the remarks of the appellant's attorney clearly and obviously were made for the purpose of leading the jury to think that, because of a thirty-year armed robbery sentence and with a life sentence in the present case, the appellant would spend the remainder of his life in the state penitentiary. Without question, those remarks amounted to provocation and caused the district attorney to respond as he did. Therefore, under the decisions of this Court, the error does not require reversal.”
1 later decision 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.