State v. Sweet’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably State v. Chaney (1998), Sanders v. State (1991)
2 federal appellate · 40 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 Strickland v. Washington · Rakas v. Illinois · South Dakota v. Opperman · Rawlings v. Kentucky · Oliver v. United States
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.
“An application for a continuance shall be made by a written motion accompanied by the affidavit of the applicant or some other credible person setting forth the facts upon which the application is based, unless the adverse party consents that the application for continuance may be made orally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garrison“on written request by the [S]tate, the defendant shall disclose to counsel for the state ... [t]he names and last known addresses of persons, other than defendant, whom defendant intends to call as witnesses at any hearing or at the trial....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Destefano
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.