Sweet v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1955
17 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 Goldsmith v. State · Goldsberry v. State · Latimer v. State · Anderson v. Wells Fargo Financial Acceptance Pennsylvania, Inc. · Garrison v. People
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the giving of an instruction respecting evidence of good character may have been proper, noninstruction alone on that point, in the absence of a proffered instruction correctly stating the law, is not prejudicial error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MacMillan
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.