State v. Gant’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2017
23 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 United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Manson v. Brathwaite · Duren v. Missouri · Houltin v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The present situation is “a classic example of ‘manifest injustice’ or 'miscarriage of justice’ which falls within the perimeters of ‘plain error’ contemplated by [Rule 30.20].” State v. Gant, 586 S.W.2d 755, 762 (Mo.App.1979) (holding that it is "elementary law that an accused cannot be charged with one offense and convicted of another”).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shepherd
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.