Dooley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Rogers v. State (1979), Brown v. State (1981)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Griffin v. California · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Pulliam v. State · Buchanan v. State · Fortson 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless it appears that there are witnesses other than the defendant who have denied or contradicted the evidence against him, any direct or indirect reference to the defendant’s failure to testify has been strictly regarded as an impingement of his constitutional and statutory rights not to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State“not been one bit of evidence from the witness stand that indicated the defendant was not guilty,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitlock v. State“he would have been pleased to have heard from the other side,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitlock 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.