Sharpe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably State v. Pierre (2006), Moss v. State (2016)
52 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. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Felix v. State · Hanifa 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the transcript shows, at most, that [Mr. Oravet] was the only prospective juror who might harbor... prejudice, and he was excused properly for cause. [Cit.] Indeed, the trial court took the additional corrective action of inquiring whether anything said [by Mr. Oravet] during voir dire would prevent the jurors from being fair and impartial, and no prospective juror gave any affirmative response. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cotton v. State“In discharging its duty to evaluate the credibility of witnesses, however, the jury was authorized to believe [her] inculpatory pre-trial statements and to reject her exculpatory testimony at trial. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. THE 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.