State v. Dorsey’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
May 1985
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lehigh Valley Railroad Company v. Royal Indemnity Company and Others · State v. Nails · State v. Keife · State v. Morgan · 248 So. 2d 810 - Sperry Rand Corp. v. City of Jackson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The argument shall be confined to evidence admitted, to the lack of evidence, to conclusions of fact that the state or defendant may draw therefrom, and to the law applicable to the case. "The argument shall not appeal to prejudice. "The state's rebuttal shall be confined to answering the argument of the defendant."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial judge is accorded wide discretion in confining the arguments to the scope of the evidence. State v. Dorsey, 262 La. 785 , 264 So.2d 644 (1972), and Article 774 of the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure provides:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.