Sutton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2007
11 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 Bobbitt v. State · Minton v. State · 162 Ind. App. 340 - Spears v. Aylor · Turczi v. State · Wash 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person who knowingly or intentionally: [[Image here]] (2) removes another person, by fraud, enticement, force, or threat of force, from one (1) place to another; commits criminal confinement.... (b) The offense of criminal confinement defined in subsection (a) is: [[Image here]] (2) a Class B felony if it: (A) is committed while armed with a deadly weapon; (B) results in serious bodily injury to a person other than the confining or removing person[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. State“a defendant is as much guilty of robbery by removing the victim from the presence of his property by force or fear as he would be by removing the property directly from the victim. Either way, the defendant parts the victim from his property by force or fear, and then gathers the possession unto himself. This is the proscribed conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. State
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.