Dunmore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1975
12 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 Cross 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel may not in argument to the jury, state as matter of fact, that of which there is no evidence. Such statement is not within the latitude of discussion the law accords to counsel, and is in itself of evil tendency.” .”
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.