Gray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2018
1 district · 23 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Harriss · Powell v. Texas · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ROBBERY FIRST DEGREE in violation of Title 11, § 832 of the Delaware Code of 1974, as amended. “DANA M. OWENS aka DANA M. LLOYD, on or about the 25th day of August, 1980, in the County of New Castle, State of Delaware, when in the course of committing the theft of various items of clothing from Casual Male and Female, did use force upon Christine L. Arnold, an employee of the said Casual Male and Female, with the intent to overcome her resistance to the taking of said property and when in the course of the commission of the crime, did cause physical injury to the said Christine L. Arnold, who was not a participant in the crime, to wit: did punch and scratch the said Christine L. Arnold causing her to sustain scratches and contusions, her culpability being predicated upon 11 Del.C. § 271.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. State“Indictments and informations . . . are sufficient in law if drawn with such particularity that the accused will be fully informed of the charge he will be required to meet, and, upon the basis of such information, will be given a reasonable opportunity to prepare his defense, and to permit the pleading in future prosecutions of the proceeding as a bar to further prosecution upon the same facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Priest v. State“the actor at the time of his conduct lacked substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to perform a material element of the offense, or lacked sufficient willpower to choose whether he would do the act or refrain from doing it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Polk 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.