State v. Garner’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1,278 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,291 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Smith (1997), State v. Treesh (2001)
9 federal appellate · 1,278 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 Illinois v. Gates · State v. Jenks · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Witherspoon v. Illinois
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · State v. Bradley · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin
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 1,291 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a conviction will be reversed where the cumulative effect of errors in a trial deprives a defendant of the constitutional right to a fair trial even though each of numerous instances of trial court error does not individually constitute cause for reversal.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“when the ends of justice so require and a fair trial is no longer possible.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The law has long recognized that intent, lying as it does within the privacy of a person's own thoughts, is not susceptible of objective proof.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.