State v. Sorensen’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2013
20 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 Frank v. United States · 6 Utah 2d 198 - State v. Sibert · A. C. Ferrellgas Corp. v. Phoenix Insurance · 131 Cal. App. 177 - People v. Carter · 5 Utah 2d 439 - Glenn v. Ferrell
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an out-of-court statement is offered simply to prove it was made, without regard to whether it is true, such testimony is not proscribed by the hearsay rule'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence of a statement by a third person is . admissible, irrespective of the fact that it was made out of court, if it is offered to support a defense of good faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person commits theft [by deception] if he obtains or exercises control over property of another by deception and with a purpose to deprive him thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.