Sandersfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * This Court has repeatedly and consistently condemned and chastised the practice of an experienced police officer injecting an ‘evidentiary harpoon’ into a trial — which could have otherwise been affirmed — and requiring this Court to waste its time in reviewing such a case, and the State of Oklahoma in having to try the case again. * * * This type of testimony can only serve in a close case to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, for, in a close case, it will result in a reversal and the costly expense of a new trial to the public. * * * The eagerness of Officer Pendry to convict the defendant has proved costly to the state.” Sandersfield v. State (1969), 461 P. 2d 1019 -20.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1999 OK CR 22 - Washington v. State · White v. State

2. ““. . . officers of the law should be properly instructed as to what is, and what is not, competent evidence and be forbidden by their superiors from injecting incompetent and prejudicial testimony into evidence which results in reversals of convictions and defeats the ends of justice.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Abram v. State · Mathis v. State