Dick v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘This court has held on several occasions that it is not necessary to prove that a defendant displayed a gun during a robbery or that he actually had a gun to sustain a conviction for Robbery in the First Degree. Miller v. State, 431 So.2d 586 (Ala.Cr.App.1983); Bender v. State, 420 So.2d 843 (Ala.Cr.App.1982); James v. State, 405 So.2d 71 (Ala.Cr.App.1981). In James v. State, supra, the court stated, “Indeed, in order to be convicted of first degree robbery an accused need not even be armed with a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument where (1) he possesses any object reasonably believed to be a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument or represents in some manner that he has one and (2) there is no evidence to rebut or refute this reasonable belief or representation.” James v. State, supra, at 73.’ ””

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

2. ““(a) A person commits the crime of robbery in the third degree if in the course of committing a theft he: “(1) Uses force against the person of the owner or any person present with intent to overcome his physical resistance or physical power of resistance; or “(2) Threatens the imminent use of force against the person of the owner or any person present with intent to compel acquiescence to the taking of or escaping with the property.””

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

3. “armed with a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument,”

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