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← 340 S.C. 393 - State v. Sutton

State v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Calloway · State v. Foust · 11 Md. App. 259 - Ott v. State · State v. Atkins · 311 Ill. App. 3d 80 - People v. Parker

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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “attempted battery or an unlawful attempt or offer to commit a violent injury upon another person, coupled with the present ability to complete the attempt or offer by a battery.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[S]pecific intent means that the defendant consciously intended the completion of acts comprising the [completed] offense.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “intentionally creat[ing] a reasonable apprehension of bodily harm”
    2 later decisions 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.