Gorham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015 · most notably Watson v. Louisiana (1985), State v. Palmer (1986)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 Rodriguez v. New York · Wingo v. Wedding · 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · Tison v. Arizona · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hat is intended by the words “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel”, “are those capital crimes where the actual commission of the felony was accompanied by such additional facts as to set the crime apart from the norm of capital felonies — the consciencelessness [sic] or pitiless crime which is unnecessarily tortuous [sic] to the victim.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Palmer · State v. Joubert
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.