Sangster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Treece v. State (1988), State v. Franklin (1995)
33 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4244
Relies on Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Ford v. Wainwright · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Andrijevic v. Kelleran
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) To appreciate the criminality of that conduct; or (2) To conform that conduct to the requirements of law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sibug v. State · Wood 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.