Sullivan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2023
12 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 Santobello v. New York · United States v. Casamento · United States v. Benchimol · United States v. Canada · United States v. Corsentino
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the State enters into a plea agreement, it is held to the most meticulous standards of both promise and performance with respect to both the terms and the spirit of the plea bargain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“according to what the defendant reasonably understood when he or she entered the plea,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aldape 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.