People v. Gross’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably People v. Hickman (1999), People v. Pahl (2006)
38 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Morissette v. United States · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Screws v. United States
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that persons of ordinary intelligence must necessarily guess as to its meaning and differ as to its application.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] culpable mental state may ... be required for the commission of [an] offense ... if the proscribed conduct necessarily involves such a culpable mental state.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“persons are able to evaluate whether an 26 object is capable of inflicting cutting, stabbing, or tearing wounds”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.