State v. Dyer’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2018
19 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 Mempa v. Rhay · Bradley v. United States · Lyles v. United States · Commonwealth v. Mutina · State v. Park
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen he realized that the presiding Justice would not continue the case for sentence, [defendant] Dyer reached into his pocket, pulled out a white envelope apparently containing a flammable substance and set himself on fire. The flames were extinguished. The defendant was handcuffed and placed in a stretcher. The Court then proceeded to pass sentence while the defendant lay on the stretcher with his eyes in a closed position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clement v. State“had the opportunity to observe the defendant and to evaluate his rational as well as factual understanding of the ... proceedings and the sufficiency of his ability to communicate with his lawyer and assist him in presenting a meaningful allocution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.