Sarduy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2006
11 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 Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United States Bay Counties Dist Council of Carpenters · 515 So. 2d 161 - Carawan v. State · Mims v. United States · Hialeah, Inc. v. Bell · 506 So. 2d 1039 - In re Code of Judicial Conduct, Canon 6C(1)
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]assages from appellate opinions, taken out of context, do not always make for good jury instructions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he fact that a statement of reasoning may be set forth in a judicial opinion does not mean that it is a proper jury instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.