Rex v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably People v. Fry (2004), State v. Anderson (1980)
34 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 People v. Treat · People v. Quinn · Kuypers v. DISTRICT COURT FORFOURTH JUD. DIST. · 422 F. Supp. 1371 - United States v. Wilkins · X. (Mims) 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] defendant has no constitutional right to unrestricted confrontation of witnesses and to introduce evi-denee at a preliminary hearing.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Fry · People v. Smith“the judge cannot completely curtail cross-examination on testimony vital to the issue of probable cause . . . by refusing to allow the defense counsel to probe the strength of the eyewitness identifications on cross-examination of the [witness]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may temper the rules of evidence in the exercise of sound judicial discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Brothers
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.