United States v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.2d 1202 · 1969
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 3 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), 23 Cal. 3d 516 - People v. Belton (1979)
59 federal appellate · 3 district · 23 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 Harrison v. United States · Curley v. United States · People v. . Molineux · Fisher v. United States · Willard Dairy Corp. v. National Dairy Products Corp.
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“judge's assessment of admissibility is vulnerable only if the error is clear,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ppellant entered the apartment with a loaded gun. This, in our opinion, permitted an inference that appellant arrived on the scene already possessed of a calmly planned and calculated intent to kill, and supported submission to the jury of the elements of premeditation and deliberation. * * * This is not a case where the murder weapon had innocent uses, or where it appeared that the defendant habitually carried the weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is immaterial that the authenticity requirement might have been better met by another method”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.