Sullivan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1979
18 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 Berggren v. Mutual Life Insurance · Lowry v. Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Co. · Ohms v. State · 84 Ind. App. 217 - Eastern, Etc., Plow Co. v. Stout, Exrx.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to warrant a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence it must appear that the evidence is such as will probably change the result if a new trial is granted; that it is material to the issue; that due diligence was exercised in obtaining the newly discovered evidence; that it is not cumulative or impeaching.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hansen 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.