State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
4
states following
May 1993
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on American Air Filter Co. v. Federal Trade Commission · State v. Merrill · United States v. Bohr · State v. Whelan · State v. Shotley
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence shows that the child consistently told the same story to everyone who asked him about it. He told it with a great amount of detail, which we do not think necessary to repeat in this opinion. Although he was occasionally vague about dates and names of some of the people he had talked to since the crime was reported, his testimony about the incident was direct and clear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Folley“It is difficult to believe that a four-year-old would develop this disturbing behavior, which was observed by several impartial witnesses, simply to support a fabricated story.”
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.