Sutton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1985
14 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.
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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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would be sticking to the letter and discarding the sense to so construe the law as it is written, as to hold that `upon' means `at the time of' and not after.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“upon his arraignment in the county court.”
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.