State v. Dowell’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2005
8 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 Harris v. New York · Walder v. United States · United States v. Moore · United States v. Harding · State v. Soto
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[a]ny testimony that tended to support defendant’s version of the incident should properly have been subjected to a searching cross-examination to rebut not only the facts stated but also the inferences and conclusions that might be drawn from such testimony.” State v. Dowell, 512 A.2d 121, 124 (R.I.1986)(citing State v. Soto, 477 A.2d 945, 949 (R.I.1984)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Soares“"courts have frequently approved reference to matters that would not be admissible as part of the prosecution’s case in chief. Even illegally obtained evidence may be admitted for impeachment purposes when a defendant gives testimony that may be construed as absolving himself from fault in a criminal case.” State v. Dowell, 512 A.2d 121, 124 (R.I.1986).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pray
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.