Dickerson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 1969
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. State · Morris v. State · Higgs 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether Dickerson used this gun or Captain Kidd’s blunderbuss to rob Barnes is irrelevant. Barnes made a positive identification of Dickerson as the man who, by pointing a gun at him, took his money.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickerson v. Simpson
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.