Sanford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 358th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Olano · Kotteakos v. United States · Fisher v. United States · O'NEAL v. McAninch · United States v. Lane
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because Rule 44.2(a) requires reversal unless harmlessness is shown, it effectively places the burden on the State to show that the error is harmless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris 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.