Missouri v. Sours’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 8 district · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Missouri v. Hunter (1983), Schweiker v. Wilson (1981)
53 federal appellate · 8 district · 105 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 Whalen v. United States
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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for further consideration in light of Whalen ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sours v. State · State v. Thompson
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.