Dunn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Marin v. State (1993), Rousseau v. State (1993)
45 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. Virginia · Barker v. Wingo · Faretta v. California · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Bounds v. Smith
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“immediately after the attorney representing the State makes an opening statement for the State.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State · McGowen v. State“4. The testimony on the part of the State shall be offered. 5. The nature of the defenses relied upon and the facts expected to be proved in their support shall be stated by defendant’s counsel. 6. The testimony on the part of the defendant shall be offered. 7. Rebutting testimony may be offered on the part of each party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hernandez v. State“should be made aware of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation, so that the record will establish that 'he knows what he is doing and his choice is made with his eyes open.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Johnson
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.