State v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
477 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 481 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Barnes (2002), State v. Conway (2006)
477 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 481 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he presence of a biased judge on the bench is, of course, a paradigmatic example of structural constitutional error, which if shown requires reversal without resort to harmlesserror analysis.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Smith · State v. Hand“a persuasive showing of cumulative error.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a duty to learn of any favorable evidence known to the others acting on the government's behalf in the case, including the police.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Berry · State v. Lacey
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.