State v. Gentile’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 87 Conn. App. 63 - State v. Dews (2005), State v. Coleman (2004)
34 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Golding · Foy v. Northeast Suburban Life · Payless Wholesale Distributor, Inc. v. Albert Culver (P.R.) Inc. · Carstea v. Poplar Tree Homeowners Ass'n
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[When] it is warranted by the evidence, it is the court's duty to caution the jury to scrutinize carefully the testimony if the jury finds that the witness intentionally assisted in the commission, or if [he] assisted or aided or abetted in the commission, of the offense with which the defendant is charged.... [I]n order for one to be an accomplice there must be mutuality of intent and community of unlawful purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he court's duty to so charge is implicated only where the trial court has before it sufficient evidence to make a determination that there is evidence that the witness was in fact an accomplice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[YJou realize that, should I come to find out that you didn't tell the truth, you're going to be the guy in [the defendant's chair] next, right?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Coughlin
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.