Sylvester v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2016
16 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Doyle v. Ohio · Wright v. State · Hammons v. State · Fleener 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no Doyle violation here since he did not exercise his Miranda right. Quite simply, the defendant did not remain silent. As we have recently observed, if a defendant does not remain silent, he cannot later claim that the silence was used against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trice v. State“An error will be found harmless if its probable impact on the jury, in light of all the evidence in the case, is sufficiently minor so as not to affect the substantial rights of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. State“The instructions must be a complete, accurate statement of the law which will not confuse or mislead the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stoltmann 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.