State v. Dragon’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Ahearn (1979), State v. Blakeney (1979)
26 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 Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Lopez v. United States · 36 Ill. 2d 275 - The People v. Nash · Nash v. Illinois
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Entrapment is an affirmative defense and the accused has the burden of establishing it. It imposes on him the burden of going forward with evidence showing that he was induced to commit the act for which he is being prosecuted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wilkins“The right of an accused to obtain witnesses in his behalf is guaranteed by Amendment VI of the United States Constitution and Article 10 of the Vermont Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Heffernan
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.