Sansom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Elmore v. State (1978), Richey v. State (1981)
45 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 Baker v. State · Wilson v. State · Coleman v. State · Gann v. State · Turner 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The inference, if any, to be drawn from a finding that the defendants were in possession of the stolen property lies in the exclusive province of the jury. As such, it is a matter for legitimate argument of counsel. Unquestionably, in most cases, such possession will logically weigh heavily, but its weight, nevertheless, will vary as the other evidence varies. An instruction as to what evidence warrants an inference of guilt clearly invades the jury’s province. . . . “For the Court to point out specific evidence and to advise as to the inferences properly to be drawn or not to be drawn therefrom is as much a transgression as it is for it to intimate its evaluation of a particular witness’ credibility. This we have recently held to be erroneous in Turner v. State (1972), 258 Ind. 267 , 280 N.E.2d 621 ; Cherry v. State (1972), 258 Ind. 298 , 280 N.E.2d 818 ; Taylor v. State (1972), 257 Ind. 664 , 278 N.E.2d 273 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“merged into the burglary, as the offense for which the greatest penalty is provided.”
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.