State v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 1990 · most notably Daniels v. State (1973), Helen Frances Sutton Root v. Isabel H. Gauper (1971)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 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 Johnson v. United States · Gilbert v. California · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Harris v. United States · McDonald v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Breaking into a home by force is not illegal if it is reasonable in the circumstances.” “The need to protect or preserve life or avoid serious injury is justification for what would be otherwise illegal absent exigency or emergency.””
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.