State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026
13 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 Whren v. United States · United States v. Robinson · United States v. Villamonte-Marquez · Travis v. State · Brunson v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I've got a hammer under the seat of my car today. Am I subject to being arrested and taken physically into custody because I have a hammer?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Sullivan
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.