Sam v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2017
16 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 Baxter v. Palmigiano · Luce v. United States · McClain v. State · United States v. Nivica · United States v. Gwaltney
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The Page benchmark is meant to reflect the appropriate starting point for sentencing in second-degree murder cases involving first felony offenders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grossman v. State · Brown v. State“had already committed another felony assault, for which he was awaiting sentencing ... [making him] a first felony offender only in the most technical sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grossman v. State“[aluy attempt to divine the likely effect of the alleged error in these cireumstances would amount to pure speculation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Copeland 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.