Gebhard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2009
8 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 Chandler v. State · Brown v. State · OVERLADE, WARDEN, ETC. v. Wells · Bond v. State · Bowman v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If persons had appeared and if Gebhard had menaced them with a loaded pistol, a different result may have been reached.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. B.R. v. State · Bailey v. State“an offense that may happen, a future act, a contingency, that is, a chance encounter with some person or persons. Walking in an empty hall with a pistol is not tumultuous conduct because it does not rise to the level that persons are immediately likely to be seriously injured.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. State · Davis v. State“contemplates physical activity on [the defendant's] part rising to the level that either people are seriously injured or property substantially damaged, or that either is likely to occur.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. State · Davis v. State
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.