State v. Gill’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 179 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Cameron (1985), Jersey City Chapter of Property Owner's Protective Ass'n v. City Council of Jersey City (1969)
3 federal appellate · 179 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 Robson v. Rodriquez · Lloyd v. Vermeulen · State v. Provenzano · State v. Severance · State v. Milligan
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hatever be the rule of construction, it is subordinate to the goal of effectuating the legislative plan as it may be gathered from the enactment `when read in full light of its history, purpose and context.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nterpretations [of a statute] which lead to absurd or unreasonable results are ... to be avoided.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Interpretations which lead to absurd or unreasonable results are... to be avoided ... and so far as the terms of the legislation and proper consideration of the interests of those subject to it will fairly permit, the statutory objective is to be fulfilled.”
2 later decisions 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.