Washington v. Dowling’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 744 So. 2d 413 - Provenzano v. Moore (1999), Bachelor v. State (1927)
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 Joe Malloy v. State of South Carolina · State v. Bryan · Ex parte Bailey · Sanford v. State · Raines 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.
“[A]n act of the Legislature as an organized body relating to crime or its punishment . . . defining crime, treating of its nature, or providing for its punishment . . . [or] deal[ing] in any way with crime or its punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smiley v. State“`A statute is an act of the Legislature as an organized body * * *.'”
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.