Dyson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “WITNESS: Well, the band on the radio is broken and we took it apart and to get it to work again we had to take it off of the — there’s a little red mark that tells you what station it’s on____ Well, that no longer moves because we had to disconnect it to tie it together to make it long enough so we could get different stations.”

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

2. “It looks like him. His lips and his face protrudes like that. He was wearing a cap the last time I saw him. It is difficult with the photograph, but it looks like him. None of the others are him.”

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

3. “We, the jurors have not decided a verdict on any of the four charges. May we be excused? Also, one of the jurors is interested in the victim showing us the knot in the radio?”

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