Sharp v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2001
13 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 188 So. 2d 300 - Silver v. State · Fitzgerald v. State · 53 So. 2d 707 - Lewis 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mere possibility that the defendant may have been misled or embarrassed in the preparation or presentation of his defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to let down the bar of strictness ... would be conducive to looseness in criminal prosecutions that might become intolerable to due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warren v. State“No principle of criminal law is better settled than that the State must prove the allegations set up in the information or indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warren 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.