Ex Parte Green’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably Graham v. Johnson (1999), Emery v. Johnson (1997)
19 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 Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Green v. United States · Menna v. New York · Price v. Georgia
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decide which forum he [would] proceed in, because [the state courts would not] consider a petitioner's application so long as the federal courts retain[ed] jurisdiction over the same matter.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re: Wilson · Ex Parte Herrera“... the jury's verdict was not based on a true finding of no malice, but was based upon Petitioner's youth, his cooperation with the police, and his lack of participation in the actual killing....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ashabranner v. State“(m)urder without malice is a voluntary homicide, committed without justification or excuse, under the immediate influence of a sudden passion arising from an adequate cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Estelle
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.