State v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably G.S. v. Department of Human Services (1999), Fiore v. Consolidated Freightways (1995)
2 district · 81 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 Kelly v. Robinson · State v. Yarbough · State v. Butler · Brewer v. Porch · Oswin v. Shaw
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make the most consistent whole of the statute.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the objective of the 1983 amendments was to stiffen penalties for defendants who commit crimes while released on probation, parole, or bail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“separate crimes deserve separate punishment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mejia
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.