Sullivan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Owens v. State (2003), Grandsinger v. State (1955)
32 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 Lasater v. State · Freels v. State · Harris v. State · Starnes v. State · Alford v. State
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.“Under this testimony and the instructions relating to it the jury might have found that Hay had not ■despaired of hope of recovery; but we do not think this finding was the only one warranted by the testimony. There was a question for the jury, and the testimony was submitted to the jury under proper instructions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanderlin v. State
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.