Dickson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While the appellant has employed the form set forth in the rule, in defiance of the rule’s spirit and purpose he has set forth a multitude of irrelevant matters and allegations which his counsel should have eliminated by amendment and the defendant not agreeing the court may have been well advised to either dismiss or refuse to hear the matter until there was compliance with the rule. Dickson v. State, 449 S.W.2d 576, 577 (Mo.1970).”

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

2. “«* * * ‘The defendant’s connection with the crime was through his association with the other men in the attempt to rob the bank, in which attempt the murder was committed. It was murder in the first degree if he was there with the others engaged in that enterprise’ even though there was no proof of a conspiracy or that he fired a shot. * * * ” (Emphasis supplied)”

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

3. ““Dissatisfaction with a penal condition, •brought about by one’s own conduct, and a hope that by a guilty plea a different kind of incarceration might be achieved are scarcely factors of involuntariness in a plea. They smack instead only of a desire to achieve as soon as possible a new condition of servitude.””

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