State v. Gonsalves’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably State v. Martin (1986), Perini Corp. v. Greate Bay Hotel & Casino, Inc. (1992)
1 district · 27 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 Glasser v. United States · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Holloway v. Arkansas · State v. Levitt
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based on specific rulings by the trial justice * * * because such action is `consistent with the fundamental principle that only specific rulings of a trial justice are reviewable on direct appeal.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McManus“more properly cognizable in post-conviction proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McManus
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.