Gustine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Lightfoot v. State (1976), 531 So. 2d 708 - Thomas v. State (1988)
128 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 Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Dorman · Groover v. State · Miller-Brent Lumber Co. v. Douglas · Graham v. People
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intent to commit a crime, coupled with an overt act apparently adapted to effect that intent, carried beyond mere preparation, but falling short of execution of the ultimate design.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]nly by pyramiding assumption upon assumption and intent upon intent can the conclusion necessary for conviction be reached”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.