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Dyson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

61
cited by 61 later decisions
1
states following
November 2016
most recently cited

61 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Werner v. State (1986), Granger v. State (1999)

61 state decisions

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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 Warren v. State · Cain v. State · Cerda v. State · Rodriquez v. State · Semaire 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.31 of this code; (2) if a reasonable person in the actor’s situation would not have retreated; and (3) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary: (A) to protect himself against the other’s use or attempted use of unlawful deadly force; or (B) to prevent the other’s imminent commission of aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery.”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ceasar v. State · Preston v. State
  2. “(a) ... [A] person is justified in using force against another when and to the degree he reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the other’s use or attempted use of unlawful force.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Johnson v. State · Holman v. State
  3. “Jury Charges for Texas Criminal Practice”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Smith v. State · Williamson 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.