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← 707 P.2d 681 - State v. Sutton

State v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
January 2016
most recently cited

7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2016

7 state decisions

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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 State v. Clayton · 115 Ill. App. 3d 88 - Reynolds v. Alton & Southern Railway Co. · State v. Hutchison · State v. Tucker · State v. Larocco

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Records of regularly conducted activity. A memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, in any form, of acts, events, conditions, opinions or diagnoses, made at or near the time by ... a person with knowledge, if kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity, and if it was the regular practice of that business activity to make the ... data compilation, all as shown by the testimony of the custodian....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “The only requirement for a jury instruction regarding circumstantial evidence in a criminal case is that the jury be instructed regarding the prosecution's burden of proof. (citations omitted). This requirement may be satisfied by either a "reasonable doubt”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The trial judge is given great deference on the issue of the adequacy of foundation.”
    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.