Dickey v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “it is clear that an attack is being conducted by multiple people as a group ... even if the recipient of that force is not engaging in the conduct that would, by itself, justify the use of force (or deadly force as the case may be).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gerardo Echavarria, Jr. v. State · Jordan v. State

2. “[Marvis] had a pistol in his pants pocket and he had his hand on the gun. I heard him cock the hammer back. [Brown] started to go for his gun that he had in his front waist band. I thought they were going to team up on me so I pulled my Glock .40 from my waist and fired at [Brown].”

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

3. “the charge specified that if the jury found that it reasonably appeared to [the defendant] that he was in danger 'from the words or conduct or both of Carlton Brown,' then it should acquit [the defendant] on the grounds of self-defense.”

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