State v. Sellers’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2017
14 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 Sherman v. United States · State v. Sutphin · 23 Cal. 3d 675 - People v. Barraza · State v. Jett · State v. Duran
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sheetz teaches that law enforcement officers may exceed the bounds of proper investigation [and thereby engage in objective entrapment] in either of two ways: (1) when they coax a defendant into a circular transaction, or (2) when they use unfair methods of persuasion which create a substantial risk that a crime would be committed by a reasonable person in the defendant’s circumstances who was not otherwise ready and willing to commit the crime. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vallejos“We believe that the court acted within the proper bounds of its discretion, and we will not reverse a decision denying a new trial on such a record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Storey“Appellate review provides a very limited opportunity for relief from poorly worded remarks....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fry
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.