Sanchez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2007
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 National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Idaho · Hopkinson v. State · State v. Hickenbottom · Browder v. State · Scheikofsky 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.
“[T]he defendant in a criminal ease has the right to have his defense affirmatively presented to the jury. The right to an instruction on the defendant’s theory of the case rests on two conditions precedent, namely, the offered instruction must be sufficient to inform the court of the defendant’s theory and there must be competent evidence in the record to support the theory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is within the court's discretion to present its own instruction or instructions covering the defendant's theory of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Iseli v. State · Coburn v. State“[t]he appellant opened the door and the prosecutor merely closed it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haselhuhn 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.