Sand v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably McFee v. State (1987), 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996)
1 federal appellate · 53 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. Boswell · United States v. Pfingst · 297 So. 2d 888 - Pittman v. State · 44 So. 2d 388 - Girouard v. Agate · 419 So. 2d 200 - Whitlock v. State
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although this defendant did not receive a perfect trial, it was a fair trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. State · Nixon v. State“It is now well settled that when anything transpires during the trial that would tend to prejudice the rights of defendant, he cannot wait and take his chances with the jury on a favorable verdict and then obtain a reversal of the cause in this Court because of such error, but he must ask the trial court for a mistrial upon the happening of such occurrence when the same is of such nature as would entitle him to a mistrial. * * * [emphasis supplied]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.