Dickerson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1979 · most notably Boykin v. State (1968), Bullock v. HARPOLE, S. ST. PENITENTIARY (1958)
3 federal appellate · 24 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.
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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.
“It can be readily seen, as stated in the Dickerson case, supra [ Dickerson v. State, 202 Miss. 804 , 32 So.2d 881 ], that the statutes place the death sentence within the sole province of the jury, and no such sentence can be imposed by any judge unless he has the authority of the jury therefor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stewart v. State · Lee 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.