State v. Gervais’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably State v. Rand (1981), 172 W. Va. 258 - State v. Oldaker (1983)
31 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 Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Jackson · State v. Berube · State v. Toppi · State v. Parkinson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) For the purposes of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that he has been convicted of a crime is admissible but only if the crime (1) was punishable by death or imprisonment for one year or more under the law under which he was convicted, or (2) involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the punishment. In either case admissibility shall depend upon a determination by the court that the probative value of this evidence outweighs the prejudicial effect to the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hanscome · State v. Chase“may not have ... engage[d] in any overt act of assistance, his presence as a friend could be taken as a circumstance suggesting encouragement”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Andrew v. State“intent of promoting or facilitating the commission of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Howes
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.