Dawson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2019
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · Tumey v. State of Ohio · Waller v. Georgia · Vasquez v. Hillery
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his court has concluded that the majority would not have opined that "the question of whether the wrongful admission of the Aryan Brotherhood evidence at sentencing was harmless error is ... open for consideration by the Supreme Court of Delaware on remand," if First Amendment errors were not subject to a harmless error analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Flanagan v. State“not whether the legally admitted evidence was sufficient to support the death sentence, which we assume it was, but rather, whether the State has proved “beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Jackson v. State“central theme that Dawson had an incorrigible character with his entire life showing repeated decisions to reject any redeeming paths,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.