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Gonseth v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
3
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

1 district · 22 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Starkey v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections (2013), State v. Hankins (2016)

1 district · 22 state decisions

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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 Sy Chong Nguyen v. State · Greenwood v. State · State v. Hunter · State v. Gray · Davis v. State

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “duty to construe statutes in a manner which does not run afoul of the constitution[,]”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[W]hile a deferment is not a conviction in the sense final judgment is entered, it is a final order in the sense the court has the power to enforce its orders upon one who has entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere in open court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “in its ordinary sense ... to designate that particular state of a criminal prosecution[ ] when a plea of guilty is entered in open court, or a verdict of guilty is returned by a jury.”
    1 later decision 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.