State v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably State v. Mora (1997), State v. Alberico (1993)
58 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 Chapman v. State of California · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all evidence admitted at the trial shall be considered and additional evidence may be presented as to the circumstances of the crime and as to any aggravating or mitigating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jacobs“The admission of expert testimony... is within the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be reversed absent a showing of the abuse of that discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“suffered from an irresistible urge to rape and kill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fry v. Lopez
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.