Sullivan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
4
states following
February 2017
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shepard v. United States · Ready v. United States · Ramsey v. United States · Brown 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'It would be a conflict of interest for a lawyer to appeal a ruling premised on the lawyer’s own ineffectiveness.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts 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.