Dixon v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1960 · most notably De Attley v. Commonwealth (1949), Barker v. Commonwealth (1947)
28 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 Carpenter v. Commonwealth · Maxey v. Commonwealth
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If Dixon’s testimony is true, we do not see how a stronger ease of self-defense could have been proved. While neither the court nor the jury is required to accept defendant’s explanation of the affray in the absence of eyewitnesses, nevertheless, if the physical circumstances in evidence are corroborative of his testimony and the circumstances proved are more consistent with his innocence than with his guilt, it was the duty of the court to instruct the jury to return a verdict of ‘not guilty.’ ””
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.