State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2022
14 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 United States v. Shaw · State v. Elbert · State v. Greenleaf · State v. Nadeau · State v. Crosman
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Opening the door occurs ‘when one party introduces evidence that provides a justification beyond mere relevance for an opponent’s introduction of otherwise inadmissible evidence.’ By means of this mechanism, ‘a misleading advantage may be countered with previously suppressed or otherwise inadmissible evidence.’””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fecteau
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.