Sullivan v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
December 2024
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Honig v. Doe · Murphy v. Hunt · Lewis v. Continental Bank Corp. · Washington v. Harper · Fuerstenberg v. Fuerstenberg
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his Court will only decide "actual controversies affecting people's rights .... Accordingly, an appeal will be dismissed as moot where, before the appellate decision, there has been a change of circumstances or the occurrence of an event by which the actual controversy ceases and it becomes impossible for the appellate court to grant effectual relief."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'demonstrated probability' that the same controversy will recur involving the same complaining party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“will have no practical legal effect upon the existing controversy.”
1 later decision 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.