State v. Sandstrom’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Schmeck v. City of Shawnee (1982), State v. Gonzalez (2010)
2 district · 36 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 Branzburg v. Hayes · New York Shipping Ass'n v. Federal Maritime Commission · Montano v. United States · St. Regis Paper Co. v. Royal Industries · Stayton v. Stayton
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The scope of relevancy in a discovery proceeding is broader than the scope of relevancy at trial. Relevancy includes information which may be useful in preparation for trial. A request for discovery would be considered relevant if there is any possibility that the information sought may be relevant to the subject matter of the lawsuit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berst v. Chipman“is material to prove an element of the offense, to prove a defense asserted by the defendant, to reduce the classification or gradation of the offense charged, or to mitigate or lessen a sentence imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“depends upon a balancing of the need of a defendant for a fair trial against the reporter's need for confidentiality.”
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.