State v. Gillette’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Dean (Slip Opinion) (2015), State v. Hinton (1993)
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · Poe v. Ullman · 2 Cal. 2d 527 - People v. Miller · State v. Chouinard · State v. Herrera
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The allegations of the indictment [are] fully proved, if there is the shooting of any person,—no matter of what person,—and the shooting is done with a dangerous weapon and with intent to commit murder; ... there is nothing in the terms of the statute requiring that the person who was shot [must] have been the person intended in fact to be murdered, or who was shot at. 53 So.2d at 869.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wilson“position occupied by a parent, relative, household member, teacher, employer or other person who, by reason of that position, is able to exercise undue influence over a child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lamure“`the result of moral, social, or domestic force exerted upon a party, so as to control the free action of his [or her] will....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lamure
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.