Dotson v. Warden’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably State v. Jones (1984), State v. Cobb (1999)
3 federal appellate · 82 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Matlock · Bumper v. North Carolina · Stoner v. California
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a question of fact to be determined from the totality of all the circumstances....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gallagher
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.