Sharpe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Malcolm v. State · State v. Kelly · Wall v. State · Maxwell 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the indictment charges a defendant committed an offense by one method[ ] it is reversible error for the court to instruct the jury that the offense could be committed by other statutory methods with no limiting instruction^] [t]he defect is cured... where the court provides the jury with the indictment and instructs jurors that the burden of proof rests upon the State to prove every material allegation of the indictment and every essential element of the crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While a defendant is allowed to declare his innocence in open court, he is not allowed to avoid this opportunity by 'pre-trial declarations of innocence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones 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.