People v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2019
16 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
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 151 · 47 U.S.C. § 605
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.
“The scope of this statute is at least uncertain; it should be applied only to those acts which the Legislature clearly meant to proscribe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“penal statutes are to be strictly construed and any ambiguity is to be resolved in favor of lenity[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.