State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1986
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Kolender v. Lawson · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Soto v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a wide sense, this term may include all the acts of a court from the beginning to the end of its proceedings in a given cause; but more specifically it means the writ, summons, mandate, or other process which is used to inform the defendant of the institution of proceedings against him and to compel his appearance, in either civil or criminal cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the absence of a statutory definition, we will give the term its plain and ordinary meaning ascertained from a standard dictionary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`This court has the ultimate authority to determine the meaning and purpose of a statute.'”
2 later decisions 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.