State v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
November 1940
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hauk v. State · Hobbs v. State · Fahnestock v. State · Mergentheim v. State · Rhodes 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If one offense be sufficiently charged in an indictment or affidavit, the pleading will not be rendered bad by the fact that an ádditional offense is insufficiently charged; the latter charge should be treated as surplusage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pollard 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.