Green v. Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
255 federal appellate · 12 district · 543 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,059 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Strickland v. Washington (1984), Barefoot v. Estelle (1983)
255 federal appellate · 12 district · 543 state decisions — followed in 36 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 · Chambers v. Mississippi · Lockett v. Ohio · Moore v. State
Cited together with Chambers v. Mississippi · Lockett v. Ohio · Strickland v. Washington · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Washington 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 1,059 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the hearsay rule may not be applied mechanistically to defeat the ends of justice.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shooting her twice after ordering [Green] to run an errand.”
2 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.