State v. Sercovich’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 1989 · most notably 360 So. 2d 500 - State v. Drew (1978), State v. Hudson (1969)
2 federal appellate · 48 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. Hills · State v. Henry · State v. Dreher · State v. Maney · Konigsberg v. State Bar of California
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although it is generally considered to be erroneous for the prosecuting attorney to declare his individual opinion or belief that the accused is guilty when the accusation is made in such a manner that the jury may understand that the prosecutor's belief is based on evidence dehors the record, such an opinion is permissible if the prosecutor states, or it is apparent, that his opinion is based on the evidence of record. [Case citations omitted]."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an impartial verdict according to the law and the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.