Gahl v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2018
10 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 Ahumada v. United States · Quinones v. State · Jackson v. State of Texas · Adams v. State · Ferguson 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Two or more offenses may be joined in a single indictment, information, or complaint, with each offense stated in a separate count, if the offenses arise out of the same criminal episode, as defined in Chapter 3 of the Penal Code. (b) A count may contain as many separate paragraphs charging the same offense as necessary, but no paragraph may charge more than one offense. (c) A count is sufficient if any one of its paragraphs is sufficient. An indictment, information, or complaint is sufficient if any one of its counts is sufficient. The indictment reads, in pertinent part: knowingly and intentionally, then and there offer to give, agree to give, and give a thing of value, to wit: current money of the United States of America, to LYNNE MARIE BRELAND, for acquiring and maintaining the possession of BABY BOY BRELAND, a child, for the purpose of adoption; and the thing of value was not a fee paid to a child-placing agency as authorized by law, and the thing of value was not a fee paid to an attorney or physician for services rendered in the usual course of legal and medical practice, and the thing of value was not a reimbursement of legal and medical expenses incurred by any person for the benefit of said child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kingsley v. State“The gist of the offense of bribery is the conferring of a benefit upon a public servant as consideration for violation of one of his duties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zarate 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.