Sullivan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 1977 · most notably Morris v. State (1906), Byrd v. State (1952)
35 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 Gibson v. State · DeArman v. State · Eiland v. State · Fonville v. State · Cleveland 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This should have been excluded. It did not, in any way, relate to, or shed any light on the act of killing, or that which apparently led to it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Jim Sullivan cut me — he cut me for nothing —I never did anything to him.””
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.