Dobbins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Fair v. State (2008), Caldwell v. State (1993)
30 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property · Lo-Ji Sales, Inc. v. New York
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is flexible and will vary with the circumstances involved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reaves v. State · Fair v. State“There are two prongs to an evaluation of legislation under an equal protection claim . . . and, as the legislation is presumptively valid, the claimant has the burden of proof as to both prongs. Initially, the claimant must establish that he is similarly situated to members of the class who are treated differently from him. Next, the claimant must establish that there is no rational basis for such different treatment. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reed v. State“cannot leave the determination of what articles fall within [its] description and are to be seized entirely to the judgment and opinion of the officer executing the warrant[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reaves 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.