Dinnery v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Galitz v. State (1981), Fairfield v. State (1981)
3 federal appellate · 89 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Standley v. State · Ferguson v. State · Hoskins v. State · Dezelle 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Q: You have gone over that indictment with me, have you not? A: Yes, sir. Q: We have read it? A: Yes, sir. Q: And is it true and correct? A: Yes, sir.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Craven v. State · Jones v. State“[J]udicial confessions are confessions made in a legal proceeding.... We cannot say that when the indictment is read to the defendant on the witness stand and he states the allegations therein are true and correct the interrogation does not constitute a judicial confession.”); Cole v. State, 578 S.W.2d 127, 128 (Tex.Crim.App. [Panel Op.] 1979) (A defendant’s plea of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State“The ... testimony by the appellant that he had read the indictment and that it was `true and correct' was tantamount to a statement that all the allegations of the indictment were true and correct and was a judicial confession that he was a guilty participant in the offense charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Craven 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.