State v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Ross (1994), State v. Montgomery (2000)
6 federal appellate · 94 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. Golding · Cage v. Louisiana · Brown v. United States · American Petrofina Co. v. Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union Local No. 4-23 · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to obtain a conviction for felony murder the state must prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, all the elements of the statutorily designated underlying felony [in this case, kidnapping in the second degree] and in addition, that a death was caused in the course of and in furtherance of that felony.... There is no requirement that the state prove an intent to cause death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) A person is guilty of conspiracy when, with intent that conduct constituting a crime be performed, he agrees with one or more persons to engage in or cause the performance of such conduct, and any one of them commits an overt act in pursuance of such conspiracy....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Kidnapping is a continuing crime.... Because kidnapping involves interfering with the victim's liberty, it continues until that liberty is restored.”
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.