Sawyer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
202 U.S. 150 · 1906
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1988 · most notably Swain v. State of Alabama (1965), Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox (1924)
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 23 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 Lewis v. United States · Pointer v. United States · Graves v. United States · Hayes v. State of Missouri · Dunlop v. United States
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been held in this court that a prisoner who takes the -stand in his own behalf waives his constitutional privilege of silence, and that the prosecution has the right to cross-examine him upon his evidence in chief with the same latitude as would be exercised in the case of an ordinary witness, as to the circumstances connecting him with the crime:””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.