State v. Dorsey’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably State v. Miller (1987), State v. Souel (1978)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 105 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · State v. Trimble · State v. Dorsey · State v. Lucero · State v. Alderete
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These rules [of evidence] shall be construed to secure fairness in administration * * * and promotion of growth and development of the law of evidence to the end that the truth may be ascertained and proceedings justly determined.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) [m]echanistic in nature; [and] (2) [i]nconsistent with the concept of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[1] When the court has evidence of the qualifications of the polygraph operator to establish his expertise; [2] Testimony to establish the reliability of the testing procedure employed as approved by the authorities in the field; and [3] The validity of the tests made on the subject.”
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.