Sidney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Ortega v. State (1984), Vaughn v. State (1982)
25 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 Burrell v. State · Garcia v. State · Seiffert v. State · Moore v. State · Butler 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While in the course of committing theft and with intent to obtain property of Clarence Jamerson, to-wit: United States currency, without the effective consent of the said Clarence Jamerson and with intent to deprive the said Clarence Jamerson of said property, did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause serious bodily injury to Clarence Jamerson by shooting him with a gun.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Black v. State“(a) a person commits an offense if he commits robbery as defined in Sec. 29.-02 of this code, and he: (1) causing serious bodily injury to another; or (2) using or exhibits a deadly weapon. (b) an offense under this section is a felony of the first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Banks v. State
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.