Dickerson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ . . .in nearly every case, we find evidence introduced as rebuttal which might properly have been introduced in support of the case in chief, but this is not the sole test. The question which arises and is directed to the discretion of the trial court is whether the evidence offered in rebuttal is a re-hash of the State’s case in chief, or whether it pertains to some material issue which has become important because of effect of evidence introduced on behalf of defendant. See, Bowman v. State, 82 Okl.Cr. 199 , 167 P.2d 663 ; and Hall v. State, Okl.Cr., 309 P.2d 300 .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schneider v. State · Hawkins v. State

2. ““Rebuttal evidence in [a] criminal case is that which is given by the state to explain, repel, counteract, contradict, or disprove, evidence introduced by or on behalf of the defendant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sam v. State