Sosa v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2022
21 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 United States v. Ferrone · Moreau v. State · Miller v. Sears · Elson v. State · Boone v. Gipson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an obvious mistake has been made which creates a high likelihood that injustice has resulted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a statute's meaning appears clear and unambiguous, ... the party asserting a different meaning bears a correspondingly heavy burden of demonstrating contrary legislative intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dj v. Pc“adopt the rule of law that is most persuasive in light of precedent, reason and policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dj v. Pc
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.