State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Decaro (2000), State v. Rolon (2001)
85 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 Davis v. Alaska · Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners · Attwood v. Singletary · Olden v. Kentucky · King v. Lynaugh
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fundamental that the defendant's rights to confront the witnesses against him and to present a defense are guaranteed by the sixth amendment to the United States constitution.... In plain terms, the defendant's right to present a defense is the right to present the defendant's version of the facts as well as the prosecution's to the jury so that it may decide where the truth lies.... The right of confrontation is the right of an accused in a criminal prosecution to confront the witnesses against him.... The primary interest secured by confrontation is the right to cross-examination ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the court finds that the evidence meets the requirements of [ § 54-86f(a) ] and that the probative value of the evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect on the victim, the court may grant the motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] trial court's duty of independent inquiry ... arises in situations implicating the fundamental fairness of the proceedings and the defendant's core constitutional trial rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. RW
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.