State v. Sanderson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1990
10 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 State v. Mancini · State v. Christie · State v. Wixon · State v. Boyd
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that sense of security and tranquility so necessary to one’s comfort, which every person feels under the protection of the law; and a breach of the peace is an invasion of the protection which the law thus affords.” . . . Although terror usually accompanies the crime in its aggravated form, fear is not an essential ingredient of the offense. . . . The controlling factor is found in the background and circumstances which attend the alleged offense.”
1 later decision 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.