Sawyer v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• requiring demanding state to furnish affidavits with indictment would force demanding state to make unnecessary double showing of probable cause
• mere differences in punctuation between 15 M.R.S.A. § 203 and section 3 of the Uniform Act does not evidence legislative intent to modify the substantive provisions of the latter
• “Under New York law the grand jury, by returning an indictment, has found probable cause. N.Y.Crim. Proc. Law § 190.65 [McKinney 1971]; e.g., Friess v. Morgenthau, 86 Misc.2d 852 . . . [Sup. Ct. 1975]”
• phrase “supported by affidavit” modifies “information” only

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Sawyer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-07-14· cited 27×
• Lee v. Massie
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1982-07-02· cited 14×
• Olson v. Thurston
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-11-02· cited 5×
• Lott v. Bechtold
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-03-19· cited 4×
• Torrey v. Williams
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-07-28· cited 4×
• State v. Young
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1984-05-31· cited 3×
• In re Nason
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1996-06-28

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gerstein v. Pugh
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-18· cited 4,350×
• Oliver Lee Kirkland and Elizabeth Smith v. Paul H. Preston and Luke Moore
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-09-14· cited 73×
• William Nicholas Ierardi v. Frank O. Gunter, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution
  First Circuit· 1976-01-13· cited 49×
• Grano v. State
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1969-09-22· cited 35×
• State v. McFarland
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1977-02-08· cited 23×
• People v. Doran
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1977-10-04· cited 15×
• Poulin v. Bonenfant
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1969-03-20· cited 12×
• People ex rel. Lipshitz v. Bessenger
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1947-12-22· cited 10×
• People v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1972-11-13· cited 8×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1968-10-30· cited 8×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1974-02-21· cited 6×
• Davis v. Behagen
  S.D. New York· 1970-12-18· cited 5×
• United States ex rel. Davis v. Behagen
  Second Circuit· 1970-12-18· cited 2×