Sadler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2011
1 federal appellate · 21 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Edwards v. Arizona · Rhode Island v. Innis
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he general rule is that testimony of an accomplice must be corroborated with evidence, that standing alone, tends to link the defendant to the commission of the crime charged. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Corroborating evidence must tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense absent the accomplice's testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.