State v. Sharpe’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably State v. Ramirez (1976), State v. Blackburn (1978)
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 State v. Lyle · State v. BRITT · Ex Parte Sturm · State v. Edwards · Tribune Review Publishing Company v. Thomas
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After the appellant had been arrested and placed in jail, his mother came to the jail and an officer explained to her why he was under arrest. The mother was then permitted to see the appellant in the presence of an officer and she said: `Israel, as many colored women as it is in this town why in the world did you go and get messed up with a white woman and you will just have to pay your penalty.' The appellant made no reply to this statement. Upon the trial of the case, when this testimony was given by the officer, an objection was made to its admission only on the ground that the appellant was not present when the statement was made. The record shows otherwise. The objection was properly overruled. This Court has held that statements in the presence of the accused by a third person are admissible as evidence when such accused remains silent and does not deny such statements.... Under this rule, when appellant's mother made the foregoing statement to him and he remained silent and did not deny same, such statement was admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knoten“... there is no rule allowing any and all statements made by the alleged victim to be admissible through hearsay testimony as long as the victim testifies during the case. It is true that when the victim takes the stand and testifies, evidence that she complained of an assault may be introduced to corroborate her testimony. This right is limited in nature, however. "The particulars or details are not admissible but so much of the complaint as identifies 'the time and place with that of the one charged’ may be shown.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dawkins 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.