State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably State v. Weaver (1998), State v. Lindberg (2008)
43 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 Chapman v. State of California · Doyle v. Ohio · State v. Finley · State v. Arlington · United States v. Wycoff
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his Court may discretionarily review claimed errors that implicate a criminal defendant's fundamental constitutional rights, even if no contemporaneous objection is made and notwithstanding the inapplicability of the § 46-20-701(2), MCA, criteria, where failing to review the claimed error at issue may result in a manifest miscarriage of justice, may leave unsettled the question of the fundamental fairness of the trial or proceedings, or may compromise the integrity of the judicial process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Newman · State v. Clausell“[T]his Court may discretionarily review claimed errors that implicate a criminal defendant’s fundamental constitutional rights, even if no contemporaneous objection is made and notwithstanding the inapplicability of the § 46-20-701(2), MCA, criteria, where failing to review the claimed error at issue may result in a manifest miscarriage of justice, may leave unsettled the question of the fundamental farness of the trial or proceedings, or may compromise the integrity of the judicial process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miller“Because of the importance of these [fundamental] rights and the effect that a denial of these rights would have on the fairness of a trial, and notwithstanding defense counsel’s failure to contemporaneously object or to claim error pursuant to § 46-20-701(2), MCA, our failure to review Sullivan’s claims would leave unsettled a question as to the fundamental fairness of his trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Upshaw
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.