State v. Dent’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2014
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Griffin v. California · Malloy v. Hogan · California v. Curry · 37 Ill. 2d 480 - The PEOPLE v. Wollenberg · Desmond 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Remarks which skirt the edges of impermissible comment are neither desirable nor worth the risk of reversal of what may well be a thoroughly deserved conviction, [Id at 442, 241 A.2d 833 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One of the things you may consider in weighing the truth of the evidence produced for the State is the absence of any witness for the defendants to say that ... they were somewhere else asleep or doing something like that. You may consider that.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ladies and gentlemen, when I am finished the defendants, if they so desire, will tell you what they have to say, and whatever they say and you hear I too will hear for the first time. [Id. at 441, 241 A.2d 833 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Collins
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.