Dutton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Coleman v. Brown (1986), Walker v. State (1986)
6 federal appellate · 48 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 Jackson v. Denno · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Sandstrom v. Montana · Adams v. Texas
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A criminal defendant should receive reasonably competent assistance of counsel. Johnson v. State, 620 P.2d 1311 (Okl.Cr. 1980). However, this does not mandate flawless counsel or counsel judged ineffective by hindsight. Clark v. Blackburn, 619 F.2d 431 (5th Cir.1980). See also Johnson, 620 P.2d at 1313 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Prior to trial, the State has filed a document entitled Bill of Particulars. In this Bill of Particulars, the State alleged the Defendants should be punished by death, because of the following aggravating circumstances: With reference to Cornel Cooks: 1. The Defendant was previously convicted of a felony involving the use or threat of violence to a person; 2. The murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel; 3. The existence of a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooks 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.