Gilbert v. Gladden’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably State v. Lagares (1992), State v. McCrary (1984)
65 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 Baker v. Carr · Roe v. Wade · Powell v. McCormack · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Tenney v. Brandhove
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he powers of the government shall be divided among three distinct branches, the legislative, executive, and judicial. No person or persons belonging to or constituting one branch shall exercise any of the powers properly belonging to either of the others, except as expressly provided in this Constitution.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... the issue of whether subject-matter jurisdiction exists ... involves merely a threshold determination as to whether the Court is legally authorized to decide the question presented.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““... an unofficial custom of long duration, known as gubernatorial courtesy, whereby bills that have been passed in both houses of the Legislature are not presented to the Governor for signature or veto until the Governor requests them.” id., pág. 1353.”
1 later decision 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.