Dickens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2022
7 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 Missouri v. Hunter · Spuehler v. State · United States v. Braverman · 1998 OK CR 66 - Patton v. State · Smith 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen applying 'textualism' appellate courts are bound by the plain, objective meaning of the text of the statute. That approach provides consistency, ensures discipline for appellate judges, and upholds the Rule of Law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“That a police officer killed a codefendant does not relieve Appellant of responsibility for the death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an activist approach rests on an anti-democratic premise that judges just know better--that we are somehow smarter and wiser than the people we govern and serve--that we on the bench are the new philosopher-kings. The constant temptation in judging is to be expedient, to reach out and fix what appears to be wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. BUSBY v. STATE
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.