Gaskins v. McKellar, Warden, Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
136
cited by 136 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
6
states following
December 2000
most recently cited
43 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Cage v. Louisiana · Yates v. Evatt
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be a doubt as would give rise to a grave uncertainty”
16 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.