Dixon v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

34 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) to protect the accused from the introduction of extraneous offenses; (2) to minimize the risk that the jury might choose to convict, not because one or more crimes were proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but because all of them together convinced the jury the defendant was guilty; (3) to ensure unanimous verdicts, that is, all of the jurors agreeing that one specific incident, which constituted the offense charged in the indictment, occurred; and (4) to give the defendant notice of the particular offense.the State intends to rely upon for prosecution and afford the defendant an opportunity to defend.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Richard Charles Owings, Jr. v. State · Owings, Richard Charles Jr.

2. “[t]he 'multiple offenses' were all recounted by the same source-the child.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Owings, Richard Charles Jr. · Sansom v. State

3. “[Appellant] is on trial solely on the charges contained in the indictment. In reference to evidence, if any, that [appellant] has engaged in transactions or acts other than that which is charged by the indictment in this case, you are instructed that you cannot consider such other transactions or acts, if any, for any purpose, unless you find and believe beyond a reasonable doubt that [appellant] engaged in said transactions or acts, and, even then, you may only consider said evidence for the purpose of determining the state of mind of [appellant] and the child, or the previous and subsequent relationship between [appellant] and the child, if any.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex Parte Pruitt