State v. Sandles’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably State v. Storey (1995), State v. McMillin (1990)
2 federal appellate · 41 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Michelson v. United States · Jones v. Howard · Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, after due deliberation, you are unable to agree upon the punishment, your foreman will sign the verdict form so stating. In such case, the Court will fix the defendant’s punishment at death or at imprisonment for life by the Division of Corrections without eligibility for probation or parole. You will bear in mind, however, that under the law, it is the primary duty and responsibility of the jury to fix the punishment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“absence of language in a particular instruction does not prejudice the defendant if the subject matter is covered and provided elsewhere in the instruction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ellis · State v. Anderson
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.