Gutierrez v. Medley’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Ostler (2001), State v. Redd (1999)
33 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 Wardius v. Oregon · Jones v. Securities & Exchange Commission · In re Pacific Railway Commission · Parsons v. Barnes · Society of Professional Journalists v. Bullock
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proper interpretation and application of a statute is a question of law which we review for correctness, affording no deference to the district court's legal conclusion.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“If there is ambiguity in the act's plain language, we then seek guidance from the legislative history and relevant policy considerations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to give effect to the intent of the legislature in light of the purpose the act was meant to achieve.”
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.