Dix v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably Godfrey v. Georgia (1980), Potts v. State (1978)
44 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 Moore v. Illinois · Jarrell v. State · Gregg v. State · Birt v. State · Harris 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“outrageously and wantonly vile” in that it involved”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowen 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.