Arnott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2011
23 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 Alvado v. General Motors Corp. · Haynes v. State · Phenix v. State · Overton v. State · Ramos 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[ejvidence of tangible objects found during the course of a search is often admitted as ‘res gestae’ as is evidence of various, seemingly irrelevant details of a transaction. This is permitted, even though the relevance of the evidence may not be readily apparent, because the law recognized that transactions do not occur in a vacuum. By being informed of all the circumstances surrounding a particular transaction, the trier of fact is enabled to put the witness’s testimony in its proper perspective, and to form a basis for judging the credibility of the witness. Some transactions are such that the ‘bare bones’ of the occurrence might seem quite plausible, but when related in context seem very unlikely to have actually occurred (or vice versa). Therefore, such evidence is usually admitted even though its relevance is not shown, or, even if irrelevant, unless it is unduly prejudicial. McCormick & Ray, supra, sec. 911.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pinkston 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.