Dodson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (2003), Polk v. State (2002)
57 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 Dutton v. Evans · Douglas v. Alabama · Frazier v. Cupp · Scherrer v. State · Dixon 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Other factors to be considered in cases involving automobiles occupied by more than one person are (1) whether the contraband is in plain view; (2) whether the contraband is found with the accused’s personal effects; (3) whether it is found onjjthe same side of the car seat as the accused was sitting or in near proximity to it; (4) whether the accused is the owner of the automobile or exercises dominion or control over it; and (5) whether the accused acted suspiciously before or during the arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell 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.