Dillard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Reed v. State (1988), McCullough v. State (1985)
30 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 Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Shoup Voting Machine Corp. v. Datamedia Computer Service, Inc. · Edwards v. State · Cherb 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There have been admitted in evidence statements allegedly made by the witness Nukie Fontenot to Ed Riklin and statements allegedly made by Ed Riklin to Nukie Fontenot, said statements having been made outside the presence of the defendant, Garth Bates. You are instructed that before you may consider such statements, if any, as evidence against the defendant, Garth Bates, you must believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, Garth Bates, and Ed Riklin had agreed to commit and were acting together in the commission of the offense alleged in the indictment. In this connection you are instructed that you may not find that the defendant, Garth Bates, and Ed Riklin had agreed to commit and were acting together in the commission of the offense alleged in the indictment from consideration of the statements, if any, made outside the presence of the defendant, Garth Bates, by and between Nukie Fontenot and Ed Riklin, alone, but there must be other evidence, in addition to such statements, to warrant a finding that the defendant, Garth Bates, and Ed Riklin had agreed to commit and were acting together in the commission of the offense alleged in the indictment. “If you do not so believe, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, you cannot consider such statements, if any, as evidence against this defendant, Garth Bates.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bates v. State““A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the offense committed; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jaycon v. State“presence of the accused with the accomplice witness, when coupled with other circumstances, may be sufficient corroboration,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.