Green v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2010
5 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 United States v. Blue · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · 115 Ill. 2d 524 - Peoria County Belwood Nursing Home v. Industrial Commission · Stephan v. State · Peterson v. Wirum
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]y enforcing the unauthorized promise made to [a] defendant, this Court would undermine the accountability built into the prosecutorial function. Unlike a [pjolice officer, the [prosecutor] is an elected official and thus accountable to the county’s electorate for [his or her] actions. Since the police possess neither the authority to withhold prosecution nor to grant immunity, no formal system exists by which to check the potentially unbridled discretion the police would possess if allowed to make binding promises precluding prosecution. The potential for abuse seems obvious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.