Dennis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2013
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
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
Relies on Spuehler v. State · Woodruff v. State · Allen v. District Court of Washington County · Moore v. State · 58 Okla. Crim. 275 - Denton 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ejvidence offered to show that some other person committed the crime charged must connect such other person with the fact; that is some overt act on the part of another towards the commission of the crime itself. There must be evidence of acts or circumstances that tend clearly to point to another, rather than the accused.... [It is] not enough to show a possible motive on the part of another; the evidence must show an overt act by the third person toward the commission of a crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dodd v. State
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.