Sawyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Old Chief v. United States · 584 So. 2d 769 - Corley v. State · 911 So. 2d 526 - Rushing v. State · 691 So. 2d 415 - Hall v. State · 953 So. 2d 224 - Carter 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case, as in any other in which the prior conviction is for an offense likely to support conviction on some improper ground, the only reasonable conclusion was that the risk of unfair prejudice did substantially outweigh the discounted probative value of the record of convic tion, and it was an abuse of discretion to admit the record when an admission was available.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herrington 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.