Gross v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Fondren, Alias Taylor v. State (1965), 483 So. 2d 1345 - Frost v. State (1986)
40 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 Keeton v. State · Pitts v. State · Heard v. State · Perkins v. State · Brooks v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By breaking is meant any act of force, regardless of how slight, necessary to be used in entering the building the turning of a knob, a slight push to further open the door, the rising of a latch these and like acts are sufficient.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every person who shall be convicted of breaking and entering, in the day or night, any shop, store * * * in which any goods, merchandise, or valuable thing shall be kept for use, sale, deposit, or transportation, with intent to steal therein, or to commit any felony * * * shall be guilty of burglary, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than seven (7) years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.