State v. Guagliardo’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1977
23 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 State v. Thompson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If he [the district attorney] fails to offer such testimony, and gives as a reason for his failure, not that he was unable to do so, but that he considered it unnecessary, the jurors may be left with the impression that he could have made good his assurance had he so chosen, and particularly may that be true where, as in this ease, the court gives the jury no instructions upon the subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Constanza““Now, I wish you to think again. I am going to give you a chance. I am placing you on your guard, and I intend to impeach your testimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Constanza
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.