Dixon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
282 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 282 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Gardner v. State (1988), Sigma Reproductive Health Center v. State (1983)
282 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 Clark v. State · Graves v. State · Bailey v. State · Hartman 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 282 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n this situation we may, depending upon the facts, “reduce the punishment to the maximum for the lesser offense, reduce it to the minimum for the lesser offense, fix it ourselves at some intermediate point, remand the case to the trial court for the assessment of the penalty, or grant a new trial either absolutely or conditionally.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Trotter v. State · Benson v. State“Assignments of error presented by counsel in their brief, unsupported by convincing argument or authority, will not be considered on appeal, unless it is apparent without further research that they are well taken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Spears v. State · Weaver 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.