Girdner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 1977
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Payne v. State · Neal v. State · 18 Okla. Crim. 480 - Cheeves v. State · Box v. State · 72 Tex. Crim. 516 - Gatlin 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he mere oblique reference to the failure of the defendant to take the stand was made at a time when the prosecutor could not possibly have known whether the defendant would testify or not. In such instances, where the comment is made in the evidentiary stage of trial, as it arose in this case, the remark could not be construed as a comment on the defendant’s failure to testify in that his failure has not yet become a fact.” Id. at 686”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanf v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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