Dix v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Davis v. State (2003), Davis v. Reed (1994)
32 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 Santoni v. United States · Gardner v. State · Westbrook v. State · Surridge v. State · Jones 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our burden on appeal is to decide whether the jury’s verdict is supported by substantial evidence. Mason v. State, 285 Ark. 479 , 688 S.W.2d 299 (1985). We view the evidence in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict. Westbrook v. State, 286 Ark. 192 , 691 S.W.2d 123 (1985).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State · Davis v. State“Burden of proof-Defenses and affirmative defenses-Presumption. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section, no person may be convicted of an offense unless the following are proved beyond a reasonable doubt: (1) Each element of the offense; (2) Jurisdiction; (3) Venue; and (4) The commission of the offense within the time period specified in § 5-1-109. (b) The state is not required to prove jurisdiction or venue unless evidence is admitted that affirmatively shows that the court lacks jurisdiction or venue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. DeWitt v. State“The state need not prove jurisdiction however, “unless evidence is admitted that affirmatively shows that the court lacks jurisdiction.” § 5-1-111. In Gardner v. State, 263 Ark. 739 , 569 S.W.2d 74 (1978), cert. den., 440 U.S. 911 (1979), we held that before the state is called upon to offer any evidence on the question of jurisdiction, there must be positive evidence that the offense occurred outside the jurisdiction of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeWitt 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.