Dawson v. Delaware’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
158 federal appellate · 11 district · 393 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 777 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley (1998), Wisconsin v. Mitchell (1993)
158 federal appellate · 11 district · 393 state decisions — followed in 32 states
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 Batson v. Kentucky · Lockett v. Ohio · Darden v. Wainwright · Williams v. People of State of New York · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 777 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Aryan Brotherhood refers to a white racist prison gang that began in the 1960's in California in response to other gangs of racial minorities. Separate gangs calling themselves the Aryan Brotherhood now exist in many state prisons including Delaware.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[19] As to defendant's remaining constitutional challenges, defendant concedes that this court has rejected similar challenges in other cases. We adhere to those prior rulings and, because further discussion would benefit neither bench nor bar, decline to discuss defendant's other arguments. [20] The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Moore
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.