State v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably State v. Dubish (1984), State v. Brice (2003)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · 6 Ill. App. 3d 259 - People v. Smith · Froedge v. State · State v. Jordan · State v. Conley
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he language of the statute here before us is couched in language which is readily understandable, and there are no omissions of necessary language. Bodily harm — harm or injury to the body — is clear and unequivocal.” (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gomez“does not include mere bruises, which are likely to be sustained in simple battery”
1 later decision 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.