State v. Sapp’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably State v. Burnett (1956), State v. Cochran (1947)
60 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 State v. Hyde · Smart v. Kansas City · State v. Douglas · State v. Duestrow · State v. Tarwater
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so find but it is merely set out as a statement of the Court.” However, immediately preceding the quoted language, the instruction plainly says, ‘ ‘ The Court instructs the jury that if you find and believe from the evidence in this case, beyond a reasonable doubt, in the light of the Court’s instructions that” in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, on January 26, 1951,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miller · State v. Evans“An instruction must be considered in its entirety and if the entire instruction when judicially examined correctly presents the law, an assignment as to an isolated paragraph, which considered alone might be misleading, must fail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Farris
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.