State v. Gorman’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2010
24 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 Berger v. United States · State v. Dreher · O'Brien v. Commonwealth · Sayre v. Commonwealth · Darby 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Absent infidelity on the part of his attorney, defendant should not be permitted to urge ignorance or incompetence of or mismanagement by the attorney as ground for a new trial, even in a criminal case. Certainly not where there is no strong showing of incompetence and prejudice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keenan“[t]here may well be in any case testimony on behalf of the defendant as to inconsistent facts and circumstances, not conclusively proved, and which the jury may have a right to and do reject as not proved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stein“every circumstance as to which there may be some testimony in the case, but only such circumstances as the jury finds proved by the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stein
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.