391 So. 2d 129 - Dolvin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2017
14 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 Burks v. United States · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · 343 So. 2d 542 - Kimmons v. State · 361 So. 2d 1176 - Carey 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere presence of a person at the time and place of a crime is not sufficient to justify his conviction for the commission of the crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our review of the evidence leaves no doubt that the defendant was convicted on speculation, suspicion, and conjecture. The judgment is therefore reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to connect the defendant with the killing of Lovett. . . .”
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.