Dooley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Michael H. Wolf testified that he had known the defendant for approximately five months; that he saw the defendant on August 18th at the service station where he worked around 3:00 a. m.; that he was accompanied by one Larry Wasson and they came to the station on foot. He had conversations with these individuals and Mr. Wasson made the statement that ‘we’re going to steal a car and we’ve got to get out of town because we’ve already stole three this week.’ The witness further testified that Mr. Dooley was present at that time and that he made no response to this statement;”

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

2. ““. . . It has long been the law of this state that where two or more persons have acted in concert in the commission of a crime, the acts and declarations of one co-actor in pursuance of the common act or design are admissible against any other co-actor on trial for the crime. .” (Citations omitted)”

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