State v. Gathers’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2006
22 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Booth v. Maryland · State v. Gaskins · State v. Durden
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extensive comments to the jury regarding the victim's character were unnecessary to an understanding of the circumstances of the crime,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“because the victim was a religious man and a registered voter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“believed in this community. He took part.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.