23 Utah 2d 372 - State v. Gillian’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2000 · most notably Beck v. Alabama (1980), State v. Baker (1983)
35 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 Stevenson v. United States · 3 Utah 2d 70 - State v. Mitchell · 23 Utah 2d 70 - State v. Castillo · 12 Utah 2d 8 - State v. Dickson · 16 Utah 2d 102 - State v. Gallegos
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the foundational principles in regard to the submission of issues to juries is that where the parties so request they are entitled to have instructions given upon their theory of the case; and this includes on lesser offenses if any reasonable view of the evidence would support such a verdict.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carruth · State v. Crick“* * * where the question raised relates to the refusal to submit included offenses, it is our duty to survey the whole evidence and the inferences naturally to be deduced therefrom to see whether there is any reasonable basis therein which would support a conviction of the lesser offenses. * * ■”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris
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.