State v. Geyer’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 177 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably State v. Pinnock (1992), State v. Graham (1986)
2 district · 177 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 Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · Goldstein v. Garrity · Graves v. United States · Gordon v. United States
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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That prudent course [of permitting evidence of unnamed felony convictions] allows the jury to draw an inference of dishonesty from the prior conviction without the extraordinary prejudice that may arise from naming the specific offense .... Ultimately, [t]he trial court, because of its intimate familiarity with the case, is in the best position to weigh the relative merits and dangers of any proffered evidence .... This principle applies with equal force to the admissibility of prior convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[C]rimes involving larcenous intent imply a general disposition toward dishonesty .... Convictions of this sort obviously bear heavily on the credibility of one who has been convicted of them. The probative value of such convictions, therefore, may often outweigh any prejudice engendered by their admission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although [narcotics] conviction reflect adversely on the defendant's general character, they have no special or direct materiality to the defendant's credibility.”
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.