Green v. Zant’s Empirical Analysis
715 F.2d 551 · 1983
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably United States v. Doerr (1989), Mason v. Texaco, Inc. (1991)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Townsend v. Sain · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Brown v. Allen
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.
“If at any time, whether before or after final submission of the case to the jury, a juror dies, becomes ill, upon other good cause shown to the court is found to be unable to perform his duty, or is discharged for other legal cause, the first alternate juror shall take the place of the first juror becoming incapacitated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peek v. Kemp“Green has stated a colorable claim of constitutional magnitude.... The circumstances of the dismissal of juror Todd raise the suggestion that her refusal to impose the death penalty was a factor in her dismissal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Zant“had every intention of continuing as a juror”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Zant
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.