Gerlach v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1987 · most notably Alford v. State (1954), Nail v. State (1959)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 Bradshaw v. State · Cain v. State · Bailey v. State · Griffin v. Union Trust Co. · Smith 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has repeatedly recognized and declared that the evidence of other crimes, recent in point of time, and of a similar nature to the offense then being tried, is admissible as bearing on the question of intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kagebein v. State“We have frequently held that evidence of other crimes of a similar nature to the one on trial and recent in point of time is admissible as bearing upon intent or purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kagebein 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.