Dalton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2006
8 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 Jackson v. Indiana · Dorfman v. State · 243 So. 2d 144 - Daniels v. O'CONNOR
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a. 13 extra days for time spent in the county jail, in addition to the 365 days previously awarded (this extra time was credited by the June 6, 1985 Order and its award has not been disputed by the State). b. 39 days for time spent in the state mental hospital on transfer from jail to be evaluated for competency to stand trial. c. Four years and 353 days for time spent in the state mental hospitals awaiting trial after an adjudication of incompetency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tal-Mason“confinement in a prison ... as part of a criminal sentence, and a period of treatment in a mental hospital for the purpose of helping the individual to return to society.”
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.