Dixon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably State v. Copeland (1987), 397 So. 2d 738 - Wale v. State (1981)
65 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 Chimel v. California · Johnson v. United States · Johnson v. United States · People v. Simon · Bailey v. United States
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge and of which he had reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that an offense has been committed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Freeman v. State · State v. Byham“The elements of the criminal offense of possession of marijuana are the suspect's knowledge of the presence of the contraband and his ability to maintain control over it or reduce it to his possession. The smell of marijuana and sight of smoke emanating from an automobile constitute probable cause to believe that both elements are satisfied as to all of the occupants of the vehicle and that each occupant had actual or constructive possession of marijuana. The existence of probable cause to believe that the driver of the automobile was in possession of the marijuana was particularly apparent.”
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.