State v. Sage’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2,094 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,114 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Jenks (1991), State v. Carter (1995)
11 federal appellate · 2,094 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Mincey v. Arizona · Harrington v. California · State v. Long · Oregon v. Kennedy
Cited together with State v. Thompkins · Strickland v. Washington · State v. Jenks · Blakemore v. Blakemore · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin
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 2,114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The admission or exclusion of relevant evidence rests within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
87 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
59 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appellate court will not disturb the exercise of that discretion absent a showing that the accused has suffered material prejudice.”
14 later decisions 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.