Gatlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Nooner v. State (1995), Brown v. State (2008)
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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Idaho v. Wright · Russell v. United States · Nebraska v. Wyoming · Berna 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.
“(1) “Deviate sexual activity” means any act of sexual gratification involving: (A) the penetration, however slight, of the anus or mouth of one person by the penis of another person; or (B) the penetration, however slight, of the vagina or anus of one person by any body member or foreign instrument manipulated by another person. * * * (9) “Sexual intercourse” means penetration, however slight, of a vagina by a penis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherrill 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.