State v. Dunnington’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1976 · most notably State v. Gatlin (1961), Wainwright v. City of New Orleans (1968)
48 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 State v. Scott · State v. Tyler · State v. Wells · State ex rel. Fernandez v. Perez · State v. Rogers
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has zealously, uniformly, and consistently adhered to the rule that it will not pass upon nor determine the sufficiency of the evidence to convict, however manifest such insufficiency may appear to the court. State v. Rogers, 152 La. 906 , 94 So. 439 ; State v. Tyler, 150 La. 132 , 90 So. 538 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Holder““If an accused appears to have been convicted without any evidence at all having been produced against him, literally none at all, a question purely of law is presented on appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Holder““But where there is no evidence at all of a fact essential to a conviction, it becomes a question of law, which this court will consider.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Howard
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.