State v. Gentry’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 111 Wash. 2d 124 - State v. Brown (1988), State v. Workman (1993)
40 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 Luce v. United States · State v. Knight · State v. Bishop · State v. Gray · State v. Fontana
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that he has been convicted of a crime shall be admitted if elicited from him or established by public record during cross-examination but only if the crime (1) was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year under the law under which he was convicted, and the court determines that the probative value of admitting this evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect to the defendant, or (2) involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the punishment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wight · State v. Brown“"misconstrues the nature of the constitutional right in question. The Constitution affords an accused a choice: he may refuse to become a witness, or he may elect to take the witness stand and testify in his own behalf.... [Jackson] having exercised his constitutional right to remain silent and not testify, cannot now be heard to complain that the court forced the choice upon him and thereby denied him due process."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'To preserve for appellate review a claim of improper impeachment with a prior conviction, a defendant must testify.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor · State v. Kirkwood
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.