State v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably State v. DeAngelis (1986), State v. Wright (1988)
31 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 Hewitt v. Helms · Meachum v. Fano · Barefoot v. Estelle · Jurek v. Texas · Vitek v. Jones
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inherent vagueness of the concept itself,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“General Statutes § 17-244 provides in pertinent part: “(a) Except as provided in section 17-255 any court prior to sentencing a person convicted of ... a sex offense involving (1) physical force or violence . . . may if it appears to the court that such person is mentally ill and dangerous to himself or others . . . upon request of any of the persons enumerated in subsection (b) of this section and a subsequent finding that such request is justified, order the commissioner to conduct an examination of the convicted defendant by qualified personnel of the institute. Upon completion of such examination the examiner shall report in writing to the court. Such report shall indicate whether the convicted defendant should be committed to the diagnostic unit of the institute for additional examination or should be sentenced in accordance with the conviction. . . . “(b) The request for such examination may be made by the state’s attorney or assistant state’s attorney who prosecuted the defendant for an offense specified in this section, or by the defendant or his attorney in his behalf. . . . “(c) Upon completion of the physical and psychiatric examination of the defendant, but not later than sixty days after admission to the diagnostic unit, a written report of the results thereof shall be filed in quadruplicate with the clerk of the court before which he was convicted . . . [and sub mitted] to the state’s attorney, to counsel for the defendant and to the office of adult probation.” ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherbo v. Manson
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.