State v. Sawyer’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Green v. United States · United States v. Jorn · Rosenberg v. Comerica Bank · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Austin Products Co. v. Workers' Compensation Insurers Rating Association of Minnesota
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellate opinions serve as authority for only those issues actually decided by the court. State v. Darwin, 161 Conn. 413 , 421 , 288 A.2d 422 (1971).”
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.