State v. Dye’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “On appeal of claims tried by the court without a jury or with an advisory jury, at law or in equity, the court on appeal shall not set aside the findings or judgment unless clearly erroneous, and due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of witnesses.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Indiana v. Russell Oney · State v. Cooper

2. “Gunn [the juror at issue] twice answered “no” [in her questionnaire], to the question of whether she or any member of her family had ever been a victim of a crime. However, in the post-conviction hearing, she testified that she had been raped by her uncle when she was two or three years old, but that her uncle had not been prosecuted. She also testified that she still thinks about the rape, and, although she did not reveal the crime on her juror questionnaire because she has “tried to forget it,” she thought about her experience during the trial. In the present case, while the defendant’s convictions did not include rape, evidence was presented at his trial that one of the victims was found laying partially undressed in a position highly suggestive of sexual assault, and a semen-stained washcloth was found near her body. Noting that the State did not charge that the victim was murdered in the course of a sexual assault, the post-conviction court nevertheless found that “a reasonable inference of sexual activity could be drawn from the evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fredrick Allen Laux v. State of Indiana

3. “The United States Supreme Court articulated a particularized test for determining whether a new trial is required due to juror deceit during voir dire or on jury questionnaires in McDonough Power Equip., Inc. v. Greenwood, 464 U.S. 548 [ 104 S.Ct. 845 , 78 LEd.2d 638] (1984).”

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