French v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1992
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 Sorrells v. United States · Doty v. Goodwin
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The same contention, now made by the State, was argued by the Government in Sorrells v. United States, [ 287 U.S. 435 (1932)]. In answer to the argument there that the defense of entrapment would lead to ‘the introduction of issues of a collateral character relating to the activities of the officials of the Government. . .,’ the court there stated: ‘The Government in such a case is in no position to object to evidence of the activities of its representatives in relation to the accused. . . .’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brascomb 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.