Green v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Bryson v. State (1994), Spears v. State (1995)
43 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 White v. Morgan · Battle v. State · Runnels v. State · Gamble v. State · Deason 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not permit the prosecutor to bolster his argument by implications which are unsupported by competent evidence offered at trial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · Pryor v. State“It is well settled that the instructions to be given the jury are left to the trial court’s discretion. This judgment will not be interfered with as long as the instructions, when considered as a whole, fairly and accurately state the applicable law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Koonce 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.