State v. Gaines’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably State v. Thompkins (1997), State v. Jackson (2001)
6 federal appellate · 161 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 McMillan v. Pennsylvania · State v. Kulig · People, Ex Rel. Wood v. . Lacombe · State v. Vondenberg · United States v. Brewer
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means any deadly weapon capable of expelling or propelling one or more projectiles by the action of an explosive or combustible propellant.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“prior to imposition of an additional term of three years' actual incarceration for possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the firearm was operable or could readily have been rendered operable at the time of the offense.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Admission into evidence of the firearm allegedly employed in the crime is not necessary to establish the specification. Rather, the fact may be established by circumstantial evidence (testimony as to gunshots, smell of gunpowder, bullets or bullet holes, etc.). Nevertheless, there must be some evidence relative to the gun's operability.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patterson · State v. Fant
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.