Gaines v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2018
24 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 Davis v. State · Hair v. State · Hayes v. State · Sowle v. State · 38 Okla. Crim. 418 - Calloway 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[mly answer is that those matters are not for your consideration, that those are matters for the parole board to determine”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Head v. State · Irvin v. State“[p]unishment may not be assessed by combining statutes, but must fall within the limitations of one statute only.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. BIVENS v. STATE · Novey v. State“... We find it apparent from the jury’s question that they were already aware of the possibility of parole. The trial court did not define the parole process in general. The jury was merely informed that parole was not a matter for their concern, but was for the parole board to determine. The trial court’s answer is in compliance with 22 O.S.1971, § 894, and is not error. See Hair v. State, Okl.Cr., 532 P.2d 72 (1974):”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Irvin 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.