Dickson v. Ge Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 403 · 1988
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Boylan (1990), Jeffries v. Wood (1997)
93 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Parker v. Gladden · Zurcher v. Stanford Daily · United States v. Bagnariol
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the material was actually received, and if so, how; (2) the length of time it was available to the jury; (3) the extent to which the juror discussed and considered it; (4) whether the material was introduced before a verdict was reached, and if so at what point in the deliberations; and (5) any other matters which may bear on the issue of the reasonable possibility of whether the extrinsic material affected the verdict.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that Dickson had done ‘something like this before.’”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant is entitled to a new trial when the jury obtains or uses evidence that has not been introduced during trial if there is a 'reasonable possibility that the extrinsic material could have affected the verdict.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.