People v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1996
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 97 Ill. App. 2d 130 - People v. Mundorf · 67 Cal. App. 683 - People v. Ellena · Snyder v. City and County of Denver · 23 Ill. App. 2d 352 - People v. Miller · 110 Ill. App. 2d 81 - People v. Taylor
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.
““Being ‘under the influence of intoxicating liquor’ means a condition that makes a person less able, either mentally or physically, or both, to exercise clear judgment, and with steady hands and nerves, operate an automobile with safety to himself and to the public.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“under the influence of intoxicating liquor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dutchover
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.