State v. Sykes’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2017
22 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · 349 So. 2d 318 - State v. Hutto · 342 So. 2d 183 - State v. Robinson · 312 So. 2d 318 - State v. Elam
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“life imprisonment at hard labor, without benefit of probation, or suspension of sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he district attorney has the power to dismiss [it] ... and in order to exercise that power it is not necessary that he obtain consent of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hayes“The entering of a nolle prosequi [dismissal] rests entirely within the discretion of the prosecuting attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hayes
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.