State v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably State v. Wise (1994), State v. Engleman (1982)
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 State v. Castino · State v. Hudson · State v. Turner · State v. Foster · State v. Menz
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [T]he court must always maintain an absolute impartiality in any trial, both in its remarks and in its conduct generally * * *.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hart · State v. Wendel“[I]n * * * State v. Sanders, Mo., 360 S.W.2d 722 , 725 * * * the Court said that `* * * a witness' credibility may not be attacked by showing a mere arrest, investigation, or criminal charge which has not resulted in a conviction * * *'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor · State v. MacOn“An exception to the [arrest] rule has infrequently been noted where the inquiry showed a specific interest of the witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor
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.