Sefton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably Garner v. State (1962), Application of Beasley (1963)
31 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 Moore v. Dempsey · Shepherd v. Florida · State v. Fouquette · State v. Teeter · State v. McKay
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fact of death and that it resulted not from natural causes, accident or suicide but from the criminal agency of another”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frutiger 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.