State v. Sadler’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably State v. Smith (1923), State ex rel. Davis v. Police Jury of Webster Parish (1907)
40 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 Carver 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is thus stated, viz.: ‘The declarant, to render his declarations admissible, must have uttered them under the sense of impending dissolution, and with a consciousness of the awful occasion, though the principle is not affected'by the fact that death did not ensue until a considerable time after the declarations were made,’ etc. [citing] Whnrt. Cr. Er. § 2S1.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Robertson
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.