Gant v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “exhibited to the trial judge for a ruling. . . .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. State · Miller v. State

2. “It is an established generic principle of evidence that proof of prior specific acts of misconduct, similar happenings or extraneous transactions committed by a party is not probative of the contested material issues in the case on trial, and therefore inadmissible. In a criminal proceeding, when the State seeks admission of an extraneous or similar transaction committed by the accused which constitutes a separate criminal offense, introduction of that “extraneous offense” transaction is inherently prejudicial, since the accused has no notice he will be called to defend against it, and his “propensity to commit crimes” is not material to whether he is guilty of the specified conduct which is charged by the State. [Citations omitted.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fielder v. State

3. ““Thereafter, as we understand it, appellant started talking about events leading up to the killing and a police record secretary attempted to write it down in longhand, but when appellant became dissatisfied with that procedure he volunteered to and did proceed to write the rest of his statement in his own words— consuming three-and-a-half legal size pages ....””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Foster v. State