State v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably State v. Caron (1974), State v. Billstrom (1967)
32 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 State v. Bock · State v. Mason · State v. Lytle · State v. Farmer · State v. Shansy
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [T]he believability and persuasive force of the identification testimony, as well as the defense evidence in the nature of an alibi, was for the jury. Applying well-settled rules, we are not persuaded that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the jury’s determination of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, even though the eyewitnesses’ testimony bespeaks the possibility of error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Maloney““* * * Evidence of other crimes closely connected in point of time and manner of commission is also admissible to establish identity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Billstrom
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.