Sellers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2016
24 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · Dutton v. Evans · Coulter v. State · Tezeno 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The statement is a product of an occurrence startling enough to produce a state of nervous excitement which would render the utterance spontaneous and unreflecting. (2) The utterance is made before there is time to contrive or misrepresent, that is, the state of excitement produced by the startling event must still dominate the reflective powers of the mind. (3) The utterance must relate to the circumstances of the occurrence preceding it.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hunt v. State · Lozano 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.