Pollard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Todd v. State (1980), Stoker v. State (1989)
31 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 Bird v. State · Nowlin v. State · Turner v. State · Nesmith v. Allen · McDaniel 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Now ask yourself that, what does that little girl have to gain or lose by coming in here and telling you a lie? Now, she didn’t have to do it. What does she have to gain or lose? Can you think of anything? She is no longer staying with her father any more. She wants to go back to her mother and she is already there. What reason did she have to tell this jury anything but the truth? I said I’d ask for a little understanding. Now, ladies and gentlemen, there are only two real witnesses to this case. The little girl came in here and told you what happened. There is no other witness to it. Either you believe her— MR. BRAUCHLE (defense counsel): We object to this argument by the State’s Attorney in that it goes to the Defendant’s failure, to testify. THE COURT: The Court has instructed the jury in its charge that they will not consider that for any purpose whatsoever of any evidence. I do not take it that that is what Counsel has in mind in his argument, Counsel. MR. BRAUCHLE: Is our objection overruled? THE COURT: Overruled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nickens v. State“There has been a little talk about whether or not Mrs. S_remembered the tire tool the first time she was questioned or thereafter. The point is simple enough. The defendant got out of his car with the tire tool behind his back. Ten or fifteen seconds later he is upon [the victim]. She sees him. No one contradicts her. She says she saw it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Todd 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.