State v. Dowdle’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Bujnowski · State v. Preston · State v. Tselios · State v. Giordano · 206 W. Va. 420 - State v. Stephens
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Defense counsel’s] job is to get their client off. [The jury’s] job is to find the truth. [The State’s] job is to present to you all the evidence, present the truth to you. [Defense counsel’s] job is to obscure the truth if it hurts their client, to distract you from the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The adequacy of a particular jury instruction necessarily depends on the capacity of the offending [incident] to lead to a verdict that could not otherwise be justly reached.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e base our review on the familiar presumption that jurors follow the trial court's instructions.”
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.