Girtman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2018
1 federal appellate · 14 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 Thomas v. State · Berry v. State · McLemore v. State · Blaylack v. State · Burton 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Girtman took the statement as a death threat. He said he went home and discovered he had left his watch at Carter's and started to return. He took his mother's pistol and en route saw Jasper waiting for him in an alley. According to Girtman, he tried to avoid Jasper by going another way but Jasper ran in front of him and blocked his way. Girtman said Jasper”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the defense was not careful in its presentation of character evidence of the deceased.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reputation for violence, not only generally but by specific acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.