Sheriff v. Roylance’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 2008
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bustos v. Sheriff, Clark County · McNair v. Sheriff, Clark County · Roy v. State · Hillis v. State · State v. Autry
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“{T]he procuring agent defense in a prosecution for a sale of a controlled substance can be maintained only if the defendant was merely a conduit for the purchase and in no way benefitted from the transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dent v. State“A procuring agent is a person who acts, not on one's own behalf or for a supplier, but solely for the recipient. A procuring agent cannot be guilty of selling . . . a controlled substance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dent 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.