Dack v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2013
4 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 Fortson v. State · Wofford v. State · Gross v. State · Dooley v. State · Grubbs 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.
“occurs where the prosecutor makes a statement in argument which directly or indirectly may be interpreted by the jury as comment on the accused's exercise of his rights”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy v. State · Reynolds v. State“This is a rare case where the individual failed to testify. You should not hold that against Mr. Dack”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitlock v. State“our Supreme Court has held such comments constitute fundamental error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitlock v. State
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.