Means v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Payton v. Kearse · Hundley Ex Rel. Hundley v. Rite Aid of South Carolina, Inc. · Creed v. City of Columbia · Howle v. PYA/Monarch, Inc. · Huntoon v. TCI Cablevision of Colorado, Inc.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not harmless error as there was no equivalent testimony presented”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Rivers
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.