Sutton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.2d 661 · 1946
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably Babb v. United States (1955), Brown v. United States (1955)
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Berger v. United States · Hagner v. United States · United States v. Cruikshank · Wong Tai 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Sixth Amendment of the federal constitution requires that in every criminal prosecution the accused shall be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him. This means that he shall be so fully and clearly informed of the charge against him as not only to enable him to prepare his defense and not be taken by surprise at the trial, but also that the information as to the alleged offense shall be so definite and certain that he may be protected by a plea of former jeopardy against another prosecution for the same offense.” “If the information in the instant case failed to meet either of these requirements, it contained a constitutional defect or omission that prejudicially affected the substantial rights of appellant”.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In an indictment ..., it is not necessary to negative the matter of an exception made by a proviso or other distinct clause in the statute, whether in the same section or elsewhere; but, if the exception itself is incorporated in the definition of the offense so that the elements of the crime are not fully stated without the exception, then it must be negatived”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A motion in arrest of judgment may be maintained only for a defect appearing upon the face of the record, and the evidence is no part of the record. [Footnote omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Adkerson
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.