Gibbons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Grant (2002), Pellegrini v. State (2001)
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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Old Aztec Mine, Inc. v. Brown · Jackson v. Warden, Nevada State Prison · Donovan 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appropriate vehicle for presenting a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is through post conviction relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DePasquale v. State
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.