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← 191 Vt. 489 - State v. Sinclair

State v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
3
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on United State v. Morgan · United States v. Mayer · Carlisle v. United States · Sanders v. State · Skok 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[W]e conclude that the common law remedy of coram nobis is a viable means for challenging criminal convictions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “affecting the validity and regularity of the judgment,”
    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.