Gilbert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Ravin v. State (1975), Lynden Transport, Inc. v. State (1975)
1 federal appellate · 58 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 Shapiro v. Thompson · Dunn v. Blumstein · Snowden v. Hughes · Bullock v. Carter · Jenness v. Fortson
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[AJs a matter of sound policy, we hold that it is an abuse of discretion [under Civil Rule 82] to award attorneys' fees against a losing party who has in good faith raised a question of genuine public interest before the courts.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is most important that electors have a period in which they may become familiar with the character, habits and reputation of candidates for political office. Modern media campaigns and ‘packaged’ candidates permit political hopefuls to campaign for office with little or no direct contact with the public they seek to serve. It is essential that voters have at least the opportunity to have some direct knowledge of their candidates in order to judge their sincerity and the truth of the claims which these aspirants for public office press forward through the media. It is a minimal requirement at best to ask a candidate to spend one year as a part of the community he hopes to represent in order to satisfy this need. [Gilbert v. State, 526 P.2d 1131, 1135 (Alaska 1974).]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“deter citizens from litigating questions of general public concern.”
2 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.