Gafford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Robinson (1993), RLR v. State (1971)
2 federal appellate · 57 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Allen v. United States · Remmer v. United States · McDonald v. Pless
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence that reveals the commission of an offense other than that for which the defendant is being tried is inadmissible if it is relevant merely to show criminal disposition. But such evidence is admissible, even when it shows the defendant’s prior trouble with the law, when it is relevant to prove some other material fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nicholi v. State · Freeman v. State“[T]he mere fact that the jury is apprised that a lie detector test was taken is not necessarily prejudicial if no inference as to the result is raised or if any inferences that might be raised as to the result are not prejudicial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · State v. McClean“in order to lessen the prejudicial impact such evidence may carry with it when used by the prosecution for impeachment purposes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. State · Eubanks 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.