Dowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1992
20 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 Rhea v. State · Weldon v. State · Scott v. State · Howell v. Duty · Jones v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law is well settled in this State that a jury’s verdict which rests solely upon speculation and conjecture will not be permitted to stand. Jones v. State, 85 Ark. 360 , 108 S. W. 223 : Martin v. State, 151 Ark. 365 , 236 S. W. 274 ; Adams v. State, 173 Ark. 713 , 193 S. W. 19 ; Hogan v. State, 170 Ark. 1143 . 282 S. W. 984 . On the other hand, this court, in testing the sufficiency of the testimony to support a jury’s verdict, views such testimony in the light most favorable to the state. Morgan v. State, 189 Ark. 981 ; Rhea v. State, 104 Ark. 162 , 147 S. W. 463 . Moreover, circumstantial testimony is legal and proper, and, when properly connected, furnishes a substantial basis and support for a jury’s verdict. State v. Jennings, 10 Ark. 428 ; Scott v. State, 180 Ark. 408 , 21 S. W. 2d 186 ; Taylor v. State, 178 Ark. 1200 , 10 S. W. 2d 853 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. State
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.