State v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Atwood (1992), State v. Murray (1995)
35 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 Terry v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Spinelli v. United States · Manson v. Brathwaite
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a witness is competent to testify as an expert is a matter primarily for the trial court and largely within its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McKinney
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.