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Dyson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Shanholt v. State · Donaldson v. Indianapolis Public Transportation Corp. · Smith 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A witness's bias, prejudice or ulterior motives are always relevant at trial in that they may discredit her or affect the weight of her testimony.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[a] person is justified in engaging in conduct otherwise prohibited if he has legal authority to do so.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.