State v. Sorrell’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 1988 · most notably State v. Santiago (1971), State v. Morgan (1976)
4 federal appellate · 73 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 State v. Polan · State v. Stago · People v. Craig · West v. State · People v. Darcy
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The general rule is that the state may inquire of the defendant when he is a witness if he was previously convicted of a felony. If the answer is in the affirmative he may be asked the number of such convictions, the names and nature of the crimes, and the places where they were committed, State v. Polan, 78 Ariz. 253 , 278 P.2d 432 , and if the answers are correctly given the inquiry must end there. If any answer of the defendant in this regard is incorrect, or if he claims he does not remember, or if he denies such conviction or equivocates in his response to questions as to conviction of felonious crimes, the facts of his conviction or convictions may be shown by the record thereof." (Emphasis ours.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cobb · State v. Mendoza““Q Mr. Phillips, have you 'ever been convicted of a felony? “A Yes, sir, I have. “Q And what felony was that? “A Mann Act. “Q And by Mann Act, do you know what, officially, the Mann Act is . called ? “A No. * * * “Q Is that felonious transporting and causing to be transported in interstate commerce a certain female for prostitution, debauchery or immoral purposes? (Emphasis added) “A I presume.””
2 later decisions 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.