State v. Dawkins’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably State v. Freeman (1983), State v. Vance (1991)
42 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. Accor · State v. Jolly · State v. Barnette · State v. Hedrick · State v. Wilson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the jury found the defendant guilty of burglary, it necessarily found facts which would support a conviction of misdemeanor breaking and entering.... Therefore, because there is not sufficient evidence of intent to commit the felony of rape within [the victim’s] house, we recognize the jury’s verdict as a verdict of guilty of misdemeanor breaking and entering ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stokes
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.