State v. Gunthorpe’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably State v. Gallegos (2007), 83 Ill. 2d 411 - People v. Leonard (1980)
44 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 Griffin v. California · Malloy v. Hogan · Pointer v. United States · State v. Williams · State v. Paris
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First. “There must be some shock, startling enough to produce this nervous excitement and render the utterance spontaneous and unreflecting.” Second. “The utterance must have been before there has been time to contrive and misrepresent, i. e., while the nervous excitement may be supposed still to dominate and the reflective powers to be yet in abeyance.” Third. “The utterance must relate to the circumstances of the occurrence preceding it.” [33 N.M at 336-37, 266 P. at 918 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Maestas
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.