State v. Gatts’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Worrall (1999), Beckman v. Butte-Silver Bow County (2000)
44 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 Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · State v. Arlington · Werre v. David · State v. Fuller
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourt decisions are not sacrosanct... and stare decisis is “not a mechanical formula of adherence to the latest decision.” Indeed, we have held that stare decisis does not require us to follow a manifestly wrong decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Worrall“stare decisis is a fundamental doctrine which reflects our concerns for stability, predictability and equal treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“not a mechanical formula of adherence to the latest decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.