Sells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Salazar (1997), State v. Chamberlain (1991)
7 federal appellate · 129 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. Manus · State v. Ramirez · Smith v. State · State v. Martinez · State v. Robinson
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be such as would affect the ability to reason and to cause a temporary loss of self control in an ordinary person of average disposition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State
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.