Sinns v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Childs v. State (1987), Allison v. State (1987)
27 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 Jackson v. Denno · Gerstein v. Pugh · Lego v. Twomey · Smith v. State · Hance 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the need to treat a unique and almost mysterious area of human response and behavior ... the complex subject of battered wife syndrome.”
3 later decisions 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.