Dowden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 1990
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gilbert v. California · People v. Gilbert · Lovely v. United States · Rent v. United States · Simpkins 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A person is criminally responsible if the result would not have occurred but for his conduct, operating either alone or concurrently with another cause, unless the concurrent cause was clearly sufficient to produce the result and the conduct of the actor clearly insufficient."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dowden v. State“"We conclude that there was ample basis upon which the jury could infer an intent to kill on the part of the appellant, and that the burden of proving intent, or lack thereof, was not foisted on the appellant."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dowden v. State
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.