Dixon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably West v. State (1988), Ford v. State (1993)
70 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · United States v. Equitable Life Assurance Society · Presbyterian Church in the United States v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · United States v. Jacquillon
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny attempt to apply the least force to the person of another constitutes an assault. The attempt is made whenever there is any action or conduct reasonably tending to create the apprehension in another that the person engaged therein is about to apply such force to him. It is sufficient that there is an apparent intention to inflict a battery and an apparent ability to carry out such intention.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) an attempt to commit a battery or (2) an intentional placing of another in apprehension of receiving an immediate battery.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the judgment of the [c]ircuit [c]ourt will not be set aside on the evidence unless clearly erroneous and due regard will be given to the opportunity of the lower court to judge the credibility of the witnesses.... [T]he findings of fact of the trial judge must be accepted unless there was no legally sufficient evidence or proper inferences therefrom, from which the court could find the accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.