Dover v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[wjhere certified copies of the records concerning prior convictions, when reasonably construed, show that a defendant was advised of his right to counsel and waived that right, then the record offered is both admissible and sufficient to invoke the application of the prior offender status. The failure of such a record to recite that the accused voluntarily waived counsel, either expressly or in writing, does not render such record void or insufficient for enhancement purposes.””

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

2. ““Where a plea of guilty has been entered, a prisoner seeking post-conviction relief must, after showing errors of counsel, show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for such errors, he would not have pleaded guilty and would have insisted on going to trial. Hill v. Lockhart, 474 U.S. 52 , [59], 106 S.Ct. 366, 370 [3], 88 L.Ed.2d 203, 210 [4b] (1985); Kline, [v. State] 704 S.W.2d [721] at 722[3] [ (Mo.App.1986) ].””

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