470 So. 2d 697 - Dougan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably 494 So. 2d 1143 - Lambrix v. State (1986), Davis v. Oklahoma (1986)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Gardner v. Florida · Santoni v. United States · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he only purpose of an indictment [or information] is to apprise a defendant of the charge against him. . . . An indictment or information . . . is nothing more or less than the vehicle by which the state charges that a crime has been committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“tell how the improper evidence and argument may have affected the jury”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“another capital felony or ... felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person.”
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.