State v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
September 1990
most recently cited
7 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Mercer · State v. Stevens · State v. Wilkerson · State v. Handley · State v. Floyd
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he failure to instruct on first degree murder [in a capital murder case] ... requires reversal of the judgment of conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blair v. Armontrout
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.