Gaskin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1998
11 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 Reynolds v. States · Davis v. Beason · Hardin v. State · Motlow v. State · Harden 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Stephen Gaskin is the leader and teacher of a party of followers that in August of 1971 numbered from 350 to 360 persons according to his testimony. They left San Francisco on October 12,1970, in a caravan composed largely, if not entirely, of buses. They spent the winter making their way across the country toward Tennessee. Gaskin had given religious lectures in San Francisco for several years and from time to time as the caravan moved eastward he gave lectures at various educational institutions. He had been a teacher of English and creative writing at San Francisco State College. Upon their arrival in Middle Tennessee the party at first camped on land of the United States Corps of Engineers, near Donels'on. They moved to Lewis County to a tract owned by a Mrs. Martin of Nashville who allowed them to use it. They spent the summer of 1971 on this property. While they were on the Martin land in Lewis County local and state officers found marihuana plants under cultivation ón the property. On August 81, 1971, they made a raid, cut and confiscated the marihuana and arrested Gaskin and the other defendants, who were members of a committee having charge of the production of marihuana. The trial and convictions resulted from this raid. The defendant, Gaskin, testified that most of his adult followers used marihuana in their religious practices. He said: “Well we found that its a way to meditation that helps us to pray and to understand our Creator and also it helps us to see the t”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson““In, enacting the statute before us the General Assembly acted in the exercise of its police power to preserve the safety and morals of the public.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swain v. State“(t)o display, exhibit, handle or use any poisonous or dangerous snake or reptile in such manner as to endanger the life or health of any person.”
1 later decision 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.