State v. Sidden’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
December 2009
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wainwright v. Witt · Penry v. Lynaugh · Skipper v. South Carolina · McKoy v. North Carolina · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen
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.
“[t]he evidence showed the defendant had been dealing in the illegal sale of alcohol and drugs all his adult life. This evidence of constant criminal activity culminating in the murder of Garry Sidden, Sr. was such that the jury could not reasonably find that the defendant had no significant history of prior criminal activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fletcher
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.