Sipsas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Berry v. State (1986), Leonard v. State (2001)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Garner v. State · McGuire v. State · Dearman v. State · Ybarra 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before refreshing a witness's memory it must appear that the witness has no recollection of the evidence to be refreshed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a living example of Lincoln's law [who] can fool all of the people enough of the time”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State · DeJesus v. Flick“No jury could be free from thoughts of compassion and. sympathy after viewing an 8" x 10" color photograph of an eviscerated child. A photograph lends dimension to otherwise non-dimensional testimonial evidence. That an erroneous admission of a photograph would cause undue prejudice is certain. The extent of that prejudice is immeasureable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robins 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.