Dowling v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2014
12 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 Peter J. Migliorini v. New York · State v. Delva · In re Trial Courts of the Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases · 287 So. 2d 73 - State v. Bryan · 705 So. 2d 898 - Florida Board of Bar Examiners Re Massachusetts School of Law
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An inaccurate jury instruction constitutes fundamental error if the inaccuracy relates to an element of the charged offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. State · Reed v. State“(l)(a) the term “false imprisonment” means forcibly, by threat, or secretly confining, abducting, imprisoning, or restraining another person without lawful authority and against his will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. State“Before you can find the defendant guilty of criminal conspiracy, the State must prove the following two elements beyond a reasonable doubt:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis 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.