340 So. 2d 10 - Sylar v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2002
16 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Hampton v. United States · Grimm v. United States · 21 Ill. 2d 320 - The People v. Strong
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.
“"Entrapment" means inducing or leading a person to commit a crime not originally planned by him. You are instructed that where an informer or other agent generally acting in concert with law enforcement authorities, furnishes a defendant with cocaine for the purpose of then arranging a sale of the cocaine by the defendant to an undercover officer, which sale is then consummated, defendant has been entrapped as a matter of law even though predisposition to commit the crime may appear, and notwithstanding that the furnishing of the cocaine is unknown to and contrary to the instructions of the law enforcement authorities.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“This appeal poses the issue whether entrapment is established as a matter of law if an informant, while acting in concert with an undercover police officer, but unknown to the officer and contrary to instructions, supplies the defendant with heroin for the purpose of then arranging a sale of the heroin by defendant to the undercover officer, which sale is then consummated. We hold that it is. ( 364 A.2d at 10 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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