State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Mazzilli v. ACCIDENT & CASUALTY INS. CO., ETC. (1958), Woodmansee v. Stoneman (1975)
1 federal appellate · 33 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 Morissette v. United States · State v. Orecchio · New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. v. Communications Workers of America · Abbotts Dairies, Inc. v. Armstrong · State v. Frost
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he witness has been impeached by a previous showing of bias, interest or corruption or when it is charged that the testimony in question is a “recent contrivance.” In general, the evidence may then be admitted solely td sustain the credibility of the witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * By virtue of tradition, training and responsibility, the average judge is less likely to be swayed from objectivity through passion or the mere eloquence of counsel. From daily experience, he acquires a certain immunity to lawyers' emotional perorations and inevitably turns to the evidence as his ultimate guide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the light of our statutes it must be something more than willfulness. It does not require a dollar motivation, but it does connote an intent to obtain an advantage for some one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McKinlay
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.