State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably State v. Watson (2002), State v. Roggenkamp (2005)
2 federal appellate · 71 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
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 · Johnson v. Righetti
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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“When a statute is unambiguous, it is not subject to judicial construction and its meaning must be derived from the plain language of the statute alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Claypool“Respondent has not engaged in an analysis of [ Gunwall ].... Accordingly, we will only consider his due process claim under federal constitutional law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fields v. Waddington
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.