State v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Brewer (1992), State v. Youngblood (1993)
66 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 United States v. Wilson · Arizona v. Manypenny · United States v. Sanges · 484 So. 2d 122 - State v. Fraser · 106 Wis. 2d 368 - State v. Alles
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon an appeal by the defendant either from a judgment of conviction or from sentence, if an illegal sentence has been imposed upon a lawful verdict or finding of guilty by the trial court, the supreme court shall correct the sentence to correspond to the verdict or finding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brewer“[T]he trial court's failure to impose a legal sentence is one of those rare situations from which the state can seek review even if it failed to object in the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hensley“Obviously, a judgment not appealed from cannot be corrected by an appellate court no matter how blatantly and publicly the error appears on the face of the record.”
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.