State v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably State v. Cherryhomes (1992), State v. Ratchford (1993)
29 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 Gerety v. Demers · Doe Ex Rel. Doe v. Heim · Mora v. Martinez · State v. Morris · Shorty v. Scott
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Custodial interference consists of the taking from this state or causing to be taken from this state, or enticing to leave this state or causing to be enticed to leave this state, a child who is less than sixteen years of age by a parent with the intention of holding the child permanently or for a protracted period, knowing that he has no legal right to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Whiting“defendant's legal right to custody of the child did not end until entry of, and the giving of, notice of a judgment in compliance with Rule 62(a),”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Romero
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.