State v. Sumlin’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Cobb (1994), O'Neal II v. Delo (1995)
36 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 Strickland v. Washington · Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No offense committed and no ... penalty ... incurred, or prosecution commenced or pending previous to or at the time when any statutory provision is repealed or amended shall be affected by the repeal or amendment ... except ... that if the penalty or punishment for any offense is reduced or lessened by any alteration of the law creating the offense, the penalty or punishment shall be assessed according to the amendatory law." (Emphasis ours.)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Phelps · Gleason v. State“ineffective assistance of appellate counsel should be presented to the appellate court in the form of a motion to recall the mandate”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Delo
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.