Pless v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo (1995), Roberts v. State (1994)
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Crawford v. State · Hawes v. State · Felker v. State · Jones 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence is not inadmissible simply because it might incidentally reflect on the defendant’s character.... What is forbidden is the introduction by the state in the first instance of evidence whose sole relevance to the crime charged is that it tends to show that the defendant has bad character. [White’s] testimony he and [Hawkins] used drugs ... on the day of the [crime] was relevant evidence of [Hawkins’s] state of mind and admissible as part of the res gestae. Whether the effects due to their use may have worn off by the time of the [crime] was a question for the jury to decide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hawkins 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.