State v. Sherer’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State Ex Rel. Porter v. Butler (1991), 437 So. 2d 276 - State v. Sherer (1983)
90 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Burch v. State of Louisiana · Brown v. Louisiana · 360 So. 2d 500 - State v. Drew
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of the competency of an expert is his knowledge of the subject about which he is called upon to express an opinion, and before any witness can give evidence as an expert his competency so to testify must have been established to the satisfaction of the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“convictions on more than one count entered on the same date should be treated as one conviction for applying the habitual offender statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The violation of a statute or ordinance shall be considered only as presumptive evidence of such negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pelt
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.