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Dick v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1907

Citation profile

62
cited by 62 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
August 2015
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 62 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably Brady v. State of Maryland (1963), Giles v. State (1962)

3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions

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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 Hall v. United States · Beard v. State · Bloomer v. State · Esterline v. State · Franklin 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It is true the jury are the judges of the law as well as the facts in this case. I have decided, in passing upon the admissibility of the testimony that in my opinion an attorney is an agent under the statute, but of course the jury is not compelled to accept my opinion in the matter, and have a perfect right to disagree with me.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “The judge * * * cannot * * * bind the jury as to the definition of the crime, or as to the legal effect of the evidence before them. He can only bind and conclude the jury as to what evidence shall be considered by them.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “was something they had nothing to do with, inasmuch as the court had already determined that question in ruling upon the testimony.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.