State v. Gellers’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2025
19 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 Massiah v. United States · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Estes v. Texas
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person shall hunt, kill or have in his possession any caribou or moose, or parts thereof. [Emphasis added] No person who has legally killed a caribou or moose beyond the limits of this State shall have in his possession or import such caribou or moose, or parts thereof, into this State, unless he has obtained a permit from the commissioner to import such caribou or moose, or parts thereof, for the purpose of consumption or for mounting, but not for sale. Such permit authorizing the importation of caribou or moose, or parts thereof, shall set forth the inclusive dates when such possession shall be legal. Possession of caribou or moose, or parts thereof, without a permit, or after such permit has expired, shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goyette““where the criminal intent originates in the mind of the accused and the offense is completed, the mere fact that the accused is furnished an opportunity to commit a crime or was aided in the commission thereof by an agent of the State in order to secure evidence necessary to the prosecution, constitutes no defense.” (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sherburne““ . . . knowledge of ... [their] presence coupled with the ability to maintain control over [them] or reduce . . . [them] to his physical possession, even though he . . . [did] not have actual personal dominion.” State v. Gellers, Me., 282 A.2d 173, 179 (1971), quoting Spataro v. State, Fla.App., 179 So.2d 873, 877 (1965)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lambert
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.