Sawyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1996
7 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3182
Relies on Gerstein v. Pugh · United States ex rel. Davis v. Behagen · Oliver Lee Kirkland and Elizabeth Smith v. Paul H. Preston and Luke Moore · Ierardi v. Gunter · Taylor v. Inhabitants of Caribou
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The courts of this state, on writ of habeas corpus, may ascertain, by proper evidence, if a person who has been arrested for extradition is a fugitive from the justice of the demanding state. If he be not a ‘fugitive from justice,’ within the meaning of section 2 of article 4 of the Constitution of the United States, he will be discharged from custody.” “To be a ‘fugitive from justice,’ it is necessary that the person charged as such must have been actually present in the demanding state at the time of the commission of the crime, or, having been there, has then committed some overt act in furtherance of the crime subsequently consummated, and has departed to another jurisdiction. And, if the evidence be clear and convincing that the accused was not personally in the demanding state at the time of the commission of the offense charged, and has committed no prior overt act therein indicative of an intent to commit the crime, or which can be construed as a step in the furtherance of the crime afterwards consummated, he should be discharged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No demand for the extradition of a person charged with crime in another state shall be recognized by the Governor unless . . . said demand shall be accompanied by a copy of an indictment found, or information, supported by affidavit in the state having jurisdiction of the crime, or by a copy of an affidavit made before a magistrate in such state, together with a copy of any warrant which was issued thereupon The indictment, information or affidavit made before the magistrate must substantially charge the person demanded with having committed a crime under the law of that state. The copy of indictment, information, affidavit must be authenticated by the executive authority making the demand.” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Olson v. Thurston
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.