Commonwealth v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Simmons (1995), Commonwealth v. Dunkle (1992)
77 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 State v. Kelly · 101 Wash. 2d 566 - State v. Petrich · Commonwealth v. O'SEARO · State v. Middleton · Commonwealth v. Seese
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he question of whether a witness is testifying in a truthful manner is one that must be answered in reliance upon inferences drawn from the ordinary experiences of life and common knowledge as to the natural tendencies of human nature, as well as upon observations of the demeanor and character of the witness.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... this information was beyond the ordinary training, knowledge, intelligence and experience of the ordinary juror and assisted the jury in assessing the testimony of the victim ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“would lead inevitably to a situation where all psychological evidence would be barred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.