State v. Sorter’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably State v. Hooper (1934), State v. Jones (1968)
1 federal appellate · 35 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 Bullard v. . Pearsall · People v. Mead · Starin v. . the People · Commonwealth v. Keyes
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You are instructed that the evidence of previous good character is competent evidence in favor of the party accused as tending to show that he would not be likely to commit the crime charged against him, and may under some circumstances be sufficient to create a reasonable doubt of his guilt when it would not otherwise exist. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moore““The involuntary killing of another by a weapon, or by means neither cruel nor unusual, in the heat of passion, in any cases other .than justifiable homicide, shall be deemed manslaughter in the fourth degree.” (Gen. Stat. 1901, § 2011.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moore“‘ ‘ Where a party has been entrapped or deceived by an artful or hostile witness, he may examine the witness as to contrary declarations, and may, in the discretion of the court, be allowed to show what such contrary declarations were.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Elco
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.