State v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1985
9 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 State v. . Phillips · State v. Drumm · State v. . Shields
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No one of ordinary intelligence would hesitate for a moment in concluding that the club in question, in the manner in which it was used upon the deceased, was a dangerous and deadly weapon. As was said in Hamilton v. People, 113 Ill. l.c. 38, `such things as all persons of ordinary intelligence are presumed to know are not required to be proven.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Painter.
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.