State v. Sawyers’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 1984
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Lujan · Sneed v. Cox · French v. Cox · Cromer v. JW Jones Construction Company · Lopez Ex Rel. Lopez v. Barreras
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A. Whenever a defendant is convicted of a crime under ... a statute not contained in the Criminal Code, which specifies the penalty to be imposed on conviction, the court shall have the power to pronounce sentence in accordance with the provisions prescribed . . . ” [Emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Herrera
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.