Gregg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1988
16 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 40 Ala. App. 45 - Orr v. State · Ashford v. McKee · Orr v. State · Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. v. Rice · Redus 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ . . . That you will return with them into court when a verdict has been reached, or you are ordered by the court so to do, and that you will not communicate to any person the state of their deliberations. So help you God.’ — Jones, Alabama Practice & Forms, § 18000.” [Emphasis added.]”
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.