Gilmer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1976 · most notably Oliver v. State (1936), Sharp v. State (1915)
26 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 Hussey v. State · McLean v. State · Linnehan v. State · Heningburg v. State · Justice 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not an indispensable prerequisite-to the admission of a dying declaration that the deceased should, in so many words, express a conviction that he is in extremis, that death is impending, and that he has no hope of life,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Riddle 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.