Sullivan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 1980 · most notably Hester v. State (1974), Barker v. State (1958)
48 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 West v. State · Bryant v. State · House v. State · Watson v. State · Hazlett v. State
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all other cases, the defendant may be found guilty of any offense, the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment or affidavit.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. State · Thomas v. State““Upon an indictment or affidavit for an offense consisting of different degrees, the jury may find the defendant not guilty of the degrees charged in the indictment or affidavit, and guilty of any degree inferior thereto or of an attempt to commit the offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barker v. State““In charging the jury the court must state to them all matters of law which are necessary for their information in giving their verdict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barker 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.