Dowd, Warden v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Smith v. State (1996), Short v. State (1954)
36 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 Manners v. State · State v. Hess
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where there is ambiguity it must be resolved against the penalty ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burrus v. State · Dye v. State“... The rule undoubtedly is that where words of specific and limited signification in a statute are followed by general words of more comprehensive import, the general words shall be construed as embracing only such persons, places and things as are of like kind or class to those designated by the specific words, unless a contrary intention is clearly shown by the statute. Miller v. State (1889), 121 Ind. 294 ; Nichols v. State (1891), 127 Ind. 406 ; State v. Sopher (1901), 157 Ind. 360 ; State ex rel. v. Board, etc. (1904), 162 Ind. 183 ; LaPorte Carriage Co. v. Sullender (1905), 165 Ind. 290 ; State ex rel. v. Jackson (1907), 168 Ind. 384 .”
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.