Dyar v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 state decisions

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a question of law based on undisputed facts”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Montanez v. State · Wolf v. State

2. “When the Legislature meets, after a particular statute or article has been judicially construed, without changing that statute or article, we presume the Legislature intended the same construction should continue to be applied.”); 42 George E. Dix and Robert O. Dawson, Texas Practice: Criminal Practice and Procedure § 26.61(b) (2d ed.2001) (noting that the Legislature’s decision to phrase current standard for requiring a competency inquiry differently than prior standard”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Greene v. State

3. “(a) Any peace officer may arrest, without warrant: (1) persons found in suspicious places and under circumstances which reasonably show that such persons have been guilty of some ... breach of the peace ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gallups v. State