Sanderson v. Paul’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2006
12 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 Sprinkle v. Ponder · Peek v. Shook · State v. . Jordan · Bunn v. . Todd · Price v. . Edwards
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It follows that, so far as the admissibility in law depends on some incidental question of factthe absence of a deponent from the jurisdiction, the use of threats to obtain confession, the sanity of a witness and the likethis also is for the judge to determine before he admits the evidence to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanderson v. Paul
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.