State v. Gallegos’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2024
18 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 Pate v. Robinson · Jackson v. Indiana · State v. Lankford · State v. Tanton · State v. Maestas
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [district] court ... found that a defendant ha[d] cruelly treated a two-year-old child by holding her foot in hot water for half a minute and ha[d] injured his brother with a knife in the course of a family argument,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quintana“an orderly and progressive method of evaluating and treating defendants who can be returned to competency within a reasonable amount of time and a fair method of detaining incompetent, dangerous defendants who cannot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trujillo“`dangerous' means that, if released, the defendant presents a serious threat of inflicting great bodily harm on another”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trujillo
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.