State v. Gazda’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. DeWitt (2004), State v. Cech (2007)
41 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · State v. Finley · State v. Gallagher · United States v. Wadsworth · State v. Tadewaldt
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) a defendant's conduct constitutes an offense within the jurisdiction of the court where the first prosecution occurred and within the jurisdiction of the court where the subsequent prosecution is pursued; (2) the first prosecution resulted in an acquittal or a conviction; and (3) the subsequent prosecution is based on an offense arising out of the same transaction [as that term is defined in § 46-1-202(23), MCA]."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lacey v. State · State v. B. Glass“When conduct constitutes an offense within the jurisdiction of any state or federal court, a prosecution in any jurisdiction is a bar to a subsequent prosecution in this state if: (1) the first prosecution resulted in an acquittal or in a conviction and the subsequent prosecution is based on an offense arising out of the same transaction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lacey v. State · State v. D. Burton“when conduct charged in a subsequent prosecution is distinct from conduct charged in the initial prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kopp
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.