Echavarria v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Gallego v. State (2001), Shelton v. State (2000)
32 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 Chapman v. State of California · Jackson v. Denno · Brewster v. Derwinski · United States v. Mechanik · Musser v. States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he crime of robbery includes acts taken to facilitate the perpetrator's escape. Under the facts of this case, there is ample evidence to support the conclusion that the murder took place during the chain of events which constitutes the attempted robbery, thus subjecting Gurry to the felony murder rule as an aider and abettor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“eyewitness identifications aside, the remaining evidence linking [the appellant] to the crime was clearly of a qualitative magnitude that renders harmless the error in excluding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. State“there was considerable doubt about the reliability of the State's primary identification witness against [the defendant].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White 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.