Grasso v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2012
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Boykin v. Alabama · Whitmore v. Arkansas · Godinez v. Moran · Rees v. Peyton
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant sentenced to death will be able to forego a state appeal only if he has been judicially determined to have the capacity to understand the choice between life and death and to knowingly and intelligently waive any and all rights to appeal his sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. State“conviction occurred prior to the sentencing hearing in the present case.”). Besides, Appellant was not prejudiced by the jury instruction which told the jury to determine”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McCarty v. State“sufficiently supported the trial judge's finding of [prior felony] aggravating circumstance beyond a reasonable doubt”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simon
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.