State v. Gillard’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Keene (1998), Welsh-Huggins v. Jefferson Cty. Prosecutor's Office (Slip Opinion) (2020)
3 federal appellate · 130 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 Cuyler v. Sullivan · Wood v. Georgia · State v. Garner · State v. Waddy · State v. Wiles
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when, on behalf of one client, it is his duty to contend for that which duty to another client requires him to oppose.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“'establish that the alternative defense was inherently in conflict with or not undertaken due to the attorney's other loyalties or interests.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Laghaoui · State v. Beamon“'some plausible alternative defense strategy or tactic might have been pursued.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Laghaoui · State v. Beamon
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.