Gonzales v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably King v. State (2009), Dashiell v. Meeks (2006)
31 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 Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman · Wilhelm v. State · State v. Hicks · State v. Frazier · Maus 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Gonzales was obviously persuaded by the reasoning of the Court of Special Appeals. He did not challenge his holding. The [issue] was not raised in his petition for a writ of certiorari, nor was it presented in our order granting the writ. Consequently, the issue is not before us____””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Broberg · Cox v. State““ ‘done according to the rules of reason and justice, not according to private opinion; according to law, and not humour. It is to be, not arbitrary, vague, and fanciful, but legal and regular. And it must be exercised within the limit, to which an honest man competent to the discharge of his office ought to confine himself.’ ” “Wilhelm v. State, 272 Md. 404, 438 , 326 A.2d 707 [, 728] (1974), quoting Lord Halsbury, L.C., in Sharp v. Wakefield [1891] A.C. 173, 179. Discretion is abused ‘if exercised in a harsh, unjust, capricious and arbitrary way.’ Mathias [v. State], 284 Md. [22], [ ] 27, 394 A.2d 292 , [295 (1978) ] [ (]quoting Jones v. State, 185 Md. 481, 489 , 45 A.2d 350 [, 353] (1946)[) ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dashiell v. Meeks
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.