State v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2024
16 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2256
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · New York v. Ferber · Scharffe v. Perkins · Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Washington · Delaware v. New York
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]efendant's intent cannot create a `lewd exhibition' out of otherwise innocent activity by children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“be the ones who are engaged ... in the lewd exhibition of their genitals, pubic or rectal areas,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chandler“[l]ewd exhibition of the genitals, pubic or rectal areas of any person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chandler
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.