Dutton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Wainwright v. State (1986), Sanborn v. Commonwealth (1988)
1 federal appellate · 49 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. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Faretta v. California · Irvin v. Dowd · Romano 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In homicide cases, where the cause of death is not susceptible of explanation based upon common observation or experience, qualified medical experts after proper and sufficient examination of the body or remains of the deceased may give opinion testimony based upon such examination “as to the probable cause of death, provided there are sufficient facts in evidence upon which to base the con-”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perkins v. State““[T]he majority of cases having dealt with negative results from inquiries appear to allow such evidence on the theory that ‘fruitless inquiries are evidence of inability of the inquirer to find after diligent search and this in turn is circumstantial evidence of the nonexistence of the [fact] in question.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) A person is guilty of murder in the first degree when: (1) He intentionally causes the death of another person. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rush 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.