State v. Garfole’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably United States v. Stevens (1991), 162 Ill. 2d 314 - People v. Cruz (1994)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 94 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 People v. Albertson · State v. Kociolek · 13 Cal. 3d 35 - People v. Matson · Commonwealth v. Murphy · Holt v. United States
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a lower standard of degree of similarity of offenses may justly be required of a defendant using other-crimes evidence defensively than is exacted from the State when such evidence is used incriminatorily.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is well established that a defendant may use similar other-crimes evidence defensively if in reason it tends, alone or with other evidence, to negate his guilt of the crime charged against him.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`is substantially outweighed by the risk that its admission will either (a) necessitate undue consumption of time or (b) create substantial danger of . . . confusing the issues or of misleading the jury.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.