Glossip v. Gross’s Empirical Analysis
576 U.S. 863 · 2015
Citation profile
4 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Farmer v. Brennan · Gregg v. Georgia · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“overturn a finding 'simply because [we are] convinced that [we] would have decided the case differently'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.