Gayer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 1996 · most notably Davis v. State (1976), Strickland v. State (1977)
66 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 Tait v. State · Hicks v. State · Commonwealth v. D'AGOSTINO · 25 Ill. 2d 451 - The People v. Nickolopoulos · Bryant v. State
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Q. What is your opinion, if any, as to how his condition will remain? What it will become? A. Of course, I haven’t seen him since September when he was discharged from the hospital, but in my opinion he will never improve satisfactorily enough, if he improves at all, to carry on any duties on his own as far as taking care of himself. In my opinion it’s a permanent injury.” Gayer v. State, supra, at 115-16 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arnett v. State““We do not feel that error resulted at this point since the question clearly calls for a conclusion on part of the witness. Such questions may be excluded without error. Bramlett v. State (1949), 227 Ind. 662 , 87 N. E. 2d 880 .” 247 Ind. at 120-121 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LeFlore v. State““Q. And when he [prosecuting attorney] sic called you to the stand he had no idea what you would testify to?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LeFlore v. State
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.