State v. Dyer’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2024
16 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio · State v. Smith · Aliff v. State · State v. Howell
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be of such a degree that an ordinary person would not ... fail to recognize it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Singer · State v. Warden“The difference between [criminal] negligence and recklessness is not marked by a sharp analytical line. On the contrary, the difference generally lies in making a judgment as to where on a continuum of unreasonable conduct one’s behavior passes from negligence to recklessness. In essence it is a matter of judging when conduct is no longer just gray but dark gray.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Singer“is sufficiently inconclusive or inherently improbable that reasonable minds must have entertained a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime of which he was convicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Warden
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.