State v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1978
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 Ker v. People of the State of Illinois · Wilson v. . Mooresville · Commonwealth v. Tay · People v. Ostrosky · State v. May
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.
““As a general rule, the mere fact that the arrest of an accused person is unlawful is of itself no bar to a prosecution on a subsequent indictment or information, by which the court acquires jurisdiction over the person of the defendant.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The fact that the arrest of defendant was illegal because municipal police officers pursued defendant and arrested him outside the corporate limits of the municipality does not affect the jurisdiction of the court over the offense for which defendant was arrested, and the court may try defendant on a valid warrant charging him with driving at a speed in excess of 80 miles per hour.””
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.