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← 552 SO2D 1383 - Sayles v. State

Sayles v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

61
cited by 61 later decisions
2
states following
December 2007
most recently cited

61 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 391 So. 2d 601 - Bullock v. State · 508 So. 2d 1111 - Foster v. State · Shearer v. State · Crawford v. Texas · 511 So. 2d 144 - Suan 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Any person who is present at the commission of a criminal offense and aids, counsels, or encourages another in the commission of that offense is an `aider and abettor' and is equally guilty with the principal offender.”
    14 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Also, under M.R.E. 103(a), before error can be predicated at all upon an adverse evidentiary ruling it must appear that a substantial right of the party is affected.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[C]ross-examination on an irrelevant point is not permitted.”
    3 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.