Surland v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Hoile v. State (2008), State v. Carlin (2011)
45 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · United States v. Moehlenkamp · 144 Wis. 2d 531 - State v. McDonald · Jones v. State · 74 Ill. 2d 44 - People v. Mazzone
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“preserves both the presumptive validity of the judgment and the ability of the defendant, through a substituted party appointed for his or her benefit, to maintain the defendant's challenge to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hollister“when a criminal defendant dies during the pendency of an appeal directed only at a sentence entered after a guilty plea, abatement of the underlying conviction is not warranted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Daly
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.