State v. Gerrard’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Wood (1982), State v. Nuttall (1993)
54 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 Hicklin v. State · People v. Strong · State v. Pickard · McCollum v. Clothier · Keller 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'exercise of discretion ... necessarily reflects the personal judgment of the court and the appellate court can properly find abuse only if ... no reasonable [person] would take the view adopted by the trial court.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a criminal case, it is 'the sentence itself which constitutes a final judgment from which the appellant has the right to appeal.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burr · State v. Mills“[Wle review a trial court's decision to deny probation under an abuse of discretion standard and will overturn a sentencing decision only if it is clear that the actions of the [trial] judge were so inherently unfair as to constitute an abuse of discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rhodes · State v. Lebeau
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.