State v. Gerdes’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2022
16 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 Dunn v. United States · Steckler v. United States · State v. Sinnott · Taylor v. State · State v. Weise
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he touchstones that appear to govern are two: the first being the showing of diligence as an excuse for . not having been able to present the evidence at the first trial; and the second being evidence that will convince the trier of facts that a different verdict will probably result____ [Although [the evidence is] not newly discovered evidence in the usual sense of the term, its availability is newly discovered, to which the same principle applies____”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“Conceding that the jury was inconsistent in acquitting defendants on the one count and convicting on the other, we cannot inquire into the motives which prompted the jury to so find. We hold that a verdict on several counts need not be consistent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ristau
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.