People v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably People v. Carines (1999), 123 Md. App. 599 - Braxton v. State (1998)
2 federal appellate · 34 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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before this court overrules a decision deliberately made, it should be convinced not merely that the case was wrongly decided, but also that less injury will result from overruling than from following it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Maffett“passage of time, erosion of memory, and dispersion of witnesses may render retrial difficult, even impossible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“be affirmed if the reviewing court is satisfied that the error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Carines
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.