State v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
12 district · 489 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 501 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 221 Ill. 2d 282 - People v. Caballes (2006), State v. Coffin (1999)
12 district · 489 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 Carroll v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Ross · United States v. Chadwick · Ohio v. Robinette
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 501 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the interstitial approach, the court asks first whether the right being asserted is protected under the federal constitution. If it is, then the state constitutional claim is not reached. If it is not, then the state constitution is examined.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen a party asserts a state constitutional right that has not been interpreted differently than its federal analog, a party also must assert in the trial court that the state constitutional provision at issue should be interpreted more expansively than the federal counterpart and provide reasons for interpreting the state provision differently from the federal provision.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Barela“`an emergency situation requiring swift action to prevent imminent danger to life or serious damage to property, or to forestall the imminent escape of a suspect or destruction of evidence.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Storey · State v. Snyder
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.