Sutton v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Turner v. Turner (1991), Doe v. Marselle (1996)
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
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Kahn v. Grant · In re Martin-Trigona · Richardson v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Griffin Hospital v. Commission on Hospitals & Health Care
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“traditionally eschewed construction of statutory language that . . . thwarts its manifest purpose.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[accord] considerable deference to the construction given a statute by the administrative agency charged with its enforcement. . . .”
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.