State v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably State v. Rose (1994), State v. Shane (1982)
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 State v. Williams · Fowler v. North Carolina · State v. Britt · State v. Phillips · State v. Spaulding
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the questions of the prosecutor will be considered proper unless the record shows that the questions were asked in bad faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) the scope thereof is subject to the discretion of the trial judge, and (2) the questions must be asked in good faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harrington
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.