Dover v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Teague v. State (1984), Cargill v. Turpin (1997)
3 federal appellate · 49 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 United States v. Matlock · Mincey v. Arizona · Harrington v. California · Timberlake v. State · Momon 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When, in a legal investigation, information, conversations, letters and replies, and similar evidence are facts to explain conduct and ascertain motives, they shall be admitted in evidence not as hearsay, but as original evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slakman v. State“then information, conversations, letters and replies, and similar evidence known to the actor are admissible to explain the actor's conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slakman 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.