Gray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 1969
24 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 Hall v. State
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.
““It must appear affirmatively, as the act of the court, pronouncing the sentence of the law, that the defendant was adjudged to death. The sentence is not the act of the court: It is the judgment of the law the court is commanded to pronounce. At common law, the record of it commenced, ‘It is therefore considered by the court;’ and these words were accepted from long use, as peculiarly significant and expressive that the.succeeding order or judgment was not the sentence of the judge, but of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leonard v. State
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.