Dotson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1920
10 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 People v. Jewett · Squire v. State · Gordon v. State · Boulo v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A criminal intent is generally an element of crime, but ‘whatever one voluntarily does he of course intends to do,’ and whenever an act is criminal under particular circumstances, the party doing the act is chargeable with the criminal intent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.