State v. Dix’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Logan (1979), State v. Fulcher (1978)
52 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 People v. Daniels · Wilkins v. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc. · 50 Cal. 2d 383 - People v. Wein · People v. Chessman · Morgan v. Ohio
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our decisions, kidnapping is defined generally as the unlawful taking and carrying away of a human being against his will by force, threats, or fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Caddell“The element of carrying away was the differentiating factor between the two offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.