State v. Gillihan’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Swafford v. State (1991), Maes v. Thomas (1995)
12 federal appellate · 28 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 Fuentes v. Shevin · State v. Garcia · State v. Vallejos · State v. Williams · State v. Polsky
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t does not seem to us that the remark [“mad dog”] was such error as went to the basis of Gillihan’s rights or to the foundation of the case or took from him a right which was essential to his defense. We doubt that the comment so aroused the passions of the jury as to preclude a fair and impartial verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This is true even though the claimed errors relate to constitutional grounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zepeda v. Dorsey
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.