Gethers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2011
15 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Nash v. United States · Ryan v. United States · Gillette Co. v. Miner
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we need not adopt in this case a per se rule that the failure to give an alibi instruction when one is warranted can never be harmless error, we find it difficult to imagine a case in which such an error could possibly be harmless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen a defendant requests an instruction on [a] theory of the case”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“instruction with respect to the defendant as a witness. 18 . ”[I]f he or she was not at the exact scene of the crime, the defendant has an alibi.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.