State v. Gaines’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Rudolfo (2008), State v. Boyett (2008)
39 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 Mathews v. United States · Stevenson v. United States · United States v. McPartlin · State v. Salazar · State v. Parish
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`As a general proposition a defendant is entitled to an instruction as to any recognized defense for which there exists evidence sufficient for a reasonable jury to find in his favor.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nozie
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.