Sawyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stephan v. State · Lewis v. State · Braham v. State · Thorne v. Department of Public Safety · Contreras v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was not an abuse of discretion for the judge to conclude that any marginal probative value of the children's testimony was outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vince B. v. Sarah B.
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.