479 So. 2d 69 - Grayson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2007
2 federal appellate · 20 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 · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Estes v. Texas · Murphy v. Florida
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.
“" 'The threshold question requires the showing of a need for the requested services. Ex parte Argo , 42 Ala. App. 546 , 547 , 171 So.2d 259 (1965). We recognized in Gwin v. State , 425 So.2d 500 , 508 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982), cert. quashed, 425 So.2d 510 (Ala. 1983), that before determining whether fundamental fairness requires that an accused be afforded the opportunity to have an expert of his choosing examine a piece of 'critical evidence whose nature is subject to varying expert opinion,' it should first be determined that the evidence is 'critical.' Evidence is 'critical' for purposes of the due process clause if it could induce a reasonable doubt in the minds of enough jurors to avoid a conviction when that evidence was developed by skilled counsel and experts. White v. Maggio , 556 F.2d 1352 , 1357-58 (5th Cir. 1977); Gwin , supra.' "”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“that Grayson's statements were voluntarily made after knowing and intelligent waivers of his constitutional rights under Miranda v. Arizona , 384 U.S. 436 , 86 S.Ct. 1602 , 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.