Dolan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Cooley v. State (1936), 651 So. 2d 641 - Burton v. State (1993)
30 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 Storey v. State · Ford v. State · Jones v. State · Hodges Bros. v. Coleman & Carroll · Ward 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The danger, or apparent danger, must be present, not prospective, — not even in the near future. . . . Human life must not be sacrificed under the apprehension of a prospective probable danger even in the near future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] character for violence or turbulence sheds no light on the credibility of a witness.”
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.