Sullivan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2016
18 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 291st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Kolender v. Lawson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 21.11 (a) A person commits an offense if, with a child younger than seventeen years and not his spouse, whether the child is of the same or opposite sex, he: (1) engages in sexual contact with the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. State“(2) “Sexual contact” means any touching of the anus, breasts, or any part of the genitals of another person with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart 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.