State v. Gould’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 7 district · 234 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 266 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Blakely v. Washington (2004), State v. Ivory (2002)
10 federal appellate · 7 district · 234 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Jones v. United States · Crane v. Stern
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 266 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon a court finding of certain aggravating factors found by a preponderance of the evidence. Apprendi, on the other hand, requires any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Any other procedure is an unacceptable departure from the jury tradition that is an indispensable part of our criminal justice system.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sherwood v. State · State v. Nunez“no retroactive application to cases final as of June 26, 2000, the date Apprendi was decided.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas · Sherwood 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.