People v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
1836
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1983
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute does not say that the house, the burning of which in the night time constitutes arson in the first degree, shall be the house of another, but such must necessarily be the construction... . According to the literal construction of the section..., a man might be punished with death for burning his own house in his own possession. I apprehend such was not the intention of the legislature, but that the common law may be called in aid of the definition of the offence... . [Emphasis in original.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Durant
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.