State v. Gulbrandsen’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Garner v. State (1962), State v. Vallejos (1974)
46 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 Wood v. Cullen · State v. Kolander · State v. Saporen · State v. Nelson · State v. Haney
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In particular, [the prosecutor] must at all times bear in mind that defendant is innocent until proved guilty, and, while it is his duty to forcefully present all material facts from which the judge or jury may conclude that defendant is guilty, he must, nevertheless, refrain from pre-con-demning the accused on the authority of the government he represents. He need not make his argument entirely colorless and may state conclusions and inferences which the human mind may reasonably draw from the facts in evidence, [citations omitted] but he is not to offer his own opinion or the opinion of “the state” as substantive evidence tending to prove defendant’s guilt since such matter is not competent evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Snyder
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.