State v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably State v. Tatum (1991), Fair v. Warden (1989)
71 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 Glasser v. United States · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Quercia v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Kelly v. United States
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nce a definite sentence is imposed, a defendant must serve the full amount of the sentence. Unlike indeterminate sentences, there is no discretion in the parole board to order early release from a definite sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonable expectation of confidentiality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.