State v. Dorsey’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2006 · most notably Eubanks v. State of Louisiana (1958), State v. Johnson (1966)
8 federal appellate · 125 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 Norris v. State of Alabama · Virginia v. Rives · Pierre v. State of Louisiana · Marcellus Thomas v. State of Texas · State v. Murphy
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not our intention to overrule the prior jurisprudence of this State, and particularly the various cases .cited by counsel for the State, in each of which defendant \was denied pre-trial inspection of written confession^ of codefendants, written statements of witnesses, or police reports in the hands of a sheriff, police department, or district attorney, and we do not overrule these cases.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sapienza v. Paul · State v. Tune“"Under the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and this State, every accused is entitled to and is guaranteed a fair trial, and to deny his counsel a pre-trial inspection of [the] accused's written confession is, in our opinion, tantamount to depriving such accused of a fair trial, and is in violation of his constitutional rights."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * All of the evidence in the possession of the Crown is in the possession of the counsel for the defendant. He knows all that the Crown knows. He has all the evidence in his possession before the witness goes on the stand. He has all the evidence that can be presented in that court at trial, before the trial begins * * Wig-more on Evidence, 3d Ed. Volume 6, Section 1850, quoting a lecture given by the Honorable Charles S. Whitman.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.