Dougherty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1991 · most notably Reid v. State (1978), Tyler v. State (1968)
28 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 City of Fort Wayne v. Coombs · Evans v. State · Kelley v. State · Dotterer v. State · Rowe 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the previous offense relied upon was committed in another jurisdiction, proof that the punishment prescribed by the law of that jurisdiction consisted of death or imprisonment in the state prison of that jurisdiction will sustain the allegation that the offense relied upon was a felony. Kelley v. State (Ind.Sup. 1933) [ 204 Ind. 612 ] 185 N.E. 453, 458 . Proof that the punishment actually imposed for the offense committed in another jurisdiction did in fact consist of imprisonment in the state prison of that jurisdiction will also sustain the allegation that the offense relied upon was a felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Wolfson
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.