Sullivan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2013
5 federal appellate · 10 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 County of Los Angeles v. Chavez-Salido · Braham v. State · People v. La Fontaine · State v. Fristoe · Elisovsky 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to constitute a 'substantial step,' conduct must go beyond mere preparation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to constitute a “substantial step,” conduct must go beyond mere preparation. Whether an act is merely preparatory or is “sufficiently close to the consummation of the crime to amount to attempt, is a question of degree and depends upon the facts and circumstances of a particular case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. State“(a) A person commits the crime of contributing to the delinquency of a minor if, being 19 years of age or older ... the person aids, induces, causes or encourages a child (1) under 18 years of age to do any act prohibited by state law....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peters 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.