State v. Sachs’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Forbes (1988), 973 So. 2d 1259 - State v. Stephenson (2008)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 Bandy v. United States · 498 So. 2d 863 - Whitehead v. State · 488 So. 2d 523 - State v. Mischler · 509 So. 2d 281 - State v. Rousseau · 498 So. 2d 899 - Vanover 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e cannot say it is improper also to consider in mitigation the manner of the commission of the crime if it has not been factored... . Although respondent is held strictly accountable under this statute, the sequence of events that resulted in the deaths in this instance tends to show a lesser degree of moral culpability.”
2 later decisions 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.