Presnell v. Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 6 district · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 285 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), Zant v. Stephens (1983)
66 federal appellate · 6 district · 125 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Gregg v. Georgia · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Gardner v. Florida · Coker v. Georgia · Cole v. State of Arkansas
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 285 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fundamental principles of procedural fairness”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.