Sorce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Geary v. State (1975), State v. Olivera (1976)
42 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 Eisentrager v. State · Wilson v. State · Bonnenfant v. State · Carter v. State · Oliver v. State
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is sufficient to establish only that it is reasonably certain that no tampering or substitution took place, and the doubt, if any, goes to the weight of the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f it reasonably appears that one or several members of a jury have become biased and will not engage in honest deliberation,”
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.