Dobbins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Peterson (1973), Samarzia v. Clark County (1989)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 35 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 Sheppard v. Maxwell · Estes v. Texas · Tocco v. United States · Tillman v. United States · Baker 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it appears that a defendant or the state is prejudiced by a joinder of offenses or of defendants in an indictment or information, or by such joinder for trial together, the court may order an election or separate trials of counts, grant a severance of defendants or provide whatever other relief justice requires. In ruling on a motion by a defendant for severance, the court may order the prosecuting attorney to deliver to the court for inspection in camera any statements or confessions made by the defendant which the state intends to introduce in evidence at the trial.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hopkinson v. State · Lee v. State“"* * * [T]he trial court very carefully instructed the jury that it should deliberate upon and decide each of the State's charges separately and independently from the other and under no circumstances was it to consider the facts and evidence relating to one of the charges in determining the guilt or innocence of the defendant on the other. It is presumed, of course, that the jury followed these instructions * * *."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sanchez v. State · Tabor v. State““are of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction, or on two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting part of a common scheme or plan . . .” Rule 11(a), W.R.Cr.P., supra,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.