State v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably State v. Boyer (1985), Commonwealth v. Moffett (1981)
27 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Anders v. California · Swenson v. Bosler · Johnson v. United States · 256 F. Supp. 670 - Gallegos v. Turner
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'communicate to the court the issues and whatever can be said in support of them.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.