State v. Gelman’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably In Re Election Law Enforcement Commission Advisory Opinion No. 01-2008 (2010), State v. Regis (2011)
56 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 Shepard v. United States · United States v. Bass · McBoyle v. United States · DiProspero v. Penn · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is ambiguity in the statutory language that leads to more than one plausible interpretation, we may turn to extrinsic evidence, including legislative history, committee reports, and contemporaneous construction,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“founded on the long-standing and fundamental principle that a person facing a criminal charge is entitled to `fair warning. . . of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the doctrine of the last antecedent . . . holds that, unless a contrary intention otherwise appears, a qualifying phrase within a statute refers to the last antecedent phrase.”
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.