Sawyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2017
15 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 Hughes v. State · Brokenbrough v. State · Pennell v. State · Thompson 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a few minutes ago you heard testimony from [a State's witness], that she said she did not want to be here ... and that she was upset because she was afraid for herself and for her children. While you were waiting in the jury room, it was developed that there have been no threats whatsoever made against her by [the defendant], by [the defendant's associ-atel, or by any member of their family or families. It was developed that basically her feeling of apprehension was a product of her own mind.... If you came to any conclusion that there were any threats made by this defendant, none were made, and you should simply strike that impression from your mind....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams 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.