Sullivan v. Dalton’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Scott v. Illinois · State Ex Rel. Public Defender Commission v. Bonacker · In re Rules of the Circuit Court for the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[[Image here]] (4) For whom the federal constitution or the state constitution requires the appointment of counsel; and (5) For whom, in case [sic] in which he faces a loss or deprivation of liberty, any law of this state requires the appointment of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Albers v. Koffman“to provide legal services to an eligible person [who was facing] a loss or deprivation or liberty.”
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.