People v. Gaines’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Delgado v. State (2000), Quarles v. United States (2019)
6 federal appellate · 27 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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to be guilty of burglary for unlawful remaining, a defendant must have entered legally, but remain for the purpose of committing a crime after authorization to be on the premises terminates.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Legislature was plainly addressing a different factual situation-not one of unlawful entry but of unauthorized remaining in a building after lawful entry (as a shoplifter who remains on the store premises after closing).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a building with intent to commit a crime therein.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Delgado v. State · Cooper v. People
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.