Galauska v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Coleman v. State (1976), Moreau v. State (1978)
29 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 Lewis v. State · Anthony v. State · Watson v. State · Taggard v. State · Beavers 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of the three methods of proving character provided by the rule, evidence of specific instances of conduct is the most convincing. At the same time it possesses the greatest capacity to arouse prejudice, to confuse, to surprise, and to consume time. Consequently the rule confines the use of evidence of this kind to cases in which character is, in the strict sense, in issue and hence deserving of a searching inquiry. When character is used circumstantially and hence occupies a lesser status in the case, proof may be only by reputation and opinion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Loesche v. State“Whether the evidence presented a suffi- ' ciently detailed account of criminal activity and the defendant’s participation in this activity so that if unexplained or uncontradicted it would warrant a conviction of the person charged with an offense by the judge or jury trying the offense, (footnote omitted) 11”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor“Evidence which would be legally admissible at trial shall be admissible before the grand jury,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coleman 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.