Gibson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1983
18 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 Ingram v. State · Maxwell v. State · Moore v. State · Mason & Franklin v. State · Moore 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... It is the established rule that when irrelevant or improper testimony is admitted on a criminal trial, against the objection of the defendant, it will work a reversal unless it affirmatively appear that the effect was to the benefit of, or not injurious to, the defendant ..."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is a general rule that it is not permissible to prove or admit circumstances going to show that the defendant committed another offense or other offenses of similar character to that charged, except when necessary to show scien-ter or intent, establish identity, complete the res gestae, show motive or make out a chain of circumstantial evidence of guilt in respect to the act charged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rosencrance 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.