Dick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Harper v. State (1982), Isaacs v. State (1989)
3 federal appellate · 83 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court stopped the trial and allowed the witness to compose himself, and it is unlikely that the witness' [emotional response] without more prejudiced [Favors'] defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Favors v. State“became hysterical or made any prejudicial comments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Favors 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.