State v. Gaston’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably State v. Harig (1974), State v. Rolling (1981)
2 district · 26 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 State v. Brewer · State v. Sheldon · Gamron v. Jones · Hickman v. Fenton · In re Fanton
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled law that the District Court has the power to impose a lawful sentence where the one pronounced was erroneous or void as being beyond the power of the trial court to pronounce and where the accused himself has invoked appellate jurisdiction for the correction of error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ulrich
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.