State v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
368 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 371 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Holgate (2000), State v. Menzies (1994)
368 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Rose v. Clark · United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co. · United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United States Bay Counties Dist Council of Carpenters · Morris v. Mathews
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 371 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enter judgment on a lesser included offense when an error has tainted the conviction for the greater offense”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Before you can convict the defendant, THOMAS CHARLES POWELL, of the offense of Attempted Criminal Homicide ... you must find from all of the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt each and every one of the following elements of that offense: 1. That on or about the 12th day of January, 2003, ... THOMAS CHARLES POWELL, attempted to cause the death of Roselynn Ellis; and 2. That said defendant then and there did so: (a) intentionally or knowingly; or (b) acting under circumstances evidencing a depraved indifference to human life, he knowingly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death to Roselynn Ellis and thereby attempted to cause the death of Roselynn Ellis; and 3. That said defendant then and there did so unlawfully.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Powell“we have the power to enter judgment for a lesser included offense if (i) the trier of fact necessarily found facts sufficient to constitute the lesser offense, and (ii) the error did not affect these findings.”
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.