Masterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
26 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 176th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. United States · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Guzman v. State · City of Los Angeles v. Department of Transportation · State v. Ross
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“place the jury in the dilemma of convicting for a greater offense in which the jury has reasonable doubt or releasing entirely from criminal liability a person the jury is convinced is a wrongdoer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“failure to find an intervening lesser-included offense (one that is between the requested lesser offense and the offense charged) may, in appropriate circumstances, render a failure to submit the requested lesser offense harmless.”
1 later decision 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.