People v. Dowell’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1955
19 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 Hanes v. State · People v. Courier · People v. Gotshall · People v. Sheffield
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.
““The intent -is the gist of the offense, and every laying on of hands upon a female under the age of consent, even though improper, does not necessarily imply an intent to have sexual intercourse. Indecent liberties may be taken with a child without any such intent.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Actual violence or actual assault is essential to the commission of this crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Carlson““This is an anomalous case. I have found no one like it in the books.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Eddy
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.