State v. Dorsey’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably State v. Dorsey (1975), State v. Treadaway (1977)
48 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · State v. Trimble · State v. Varos · State v. Chavez
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court reversed the judgment of conviction [in Chambers)|, holding that when a state rule of evidence conflicts with the right to present witnesses, the rule may ‘not be applied mechanistically to defeat the ends of justice,’ but must meet the fundamental standards of due process. . . . In the Court’s view, the State in Chambers did not demonstrate that the hearsay testimony in that case, which bore ‘assurances of trustworthiness’ including corroboration by other evidence, would be unreliable, and thus the defendant should have been able to introduce the exculpatory testimony. [Italics supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patrick v. State“[W]here constitutional rights directly affecting the ascertainment of guilt are implicated”
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.