State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2009
10 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 Holt v. Alleghany Corp. · United States v. Murray · Affronti v. United States · Fine v. Commonwealth · Phillips v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... the court, on its own motion ... may order the person to be returned to the court, at which time the court may review its previous action and reaffirm it or substitute it for any sentence... Such action is discretionary with the court, and its decision to take such action or not to take such action is not subject to appeal...” (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dvorsky“Nothing in the statute precludes subsequent continuance of the proceedings initially ordered. Moreover, the statute recognizes that there may be some further delay between the time the incarcerated party is returned to court and the court’s “final order in any such proceedings.””
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.