State v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Cummings (2000), State v. Steen (2000)
30 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 Wade v. Hunter · United States v. Josef Perez · McKoy v. North Carolina · Pauley v. Beth-Energy Mines, Inc. · Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a mistrial has been declared properly, `in legal contemplation there has been no trial.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“outside matters such as parole eligibility, a juror's outside investigation, evidence at the previous trial, and whether one juror believed in the death penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sanders v. Easley“Before granting a mistrial, the judge must make finding of facts with respect to the grounds for the mistrial and insert the findings in the record of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.