Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Mays v. State (2010), Ruffin v. State (2008)
27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas))
Relationships
Relies on Penry v. State · Bradley v. State · Wagner v. State · Smith v. State · Cowles 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all prosecutions for murder, the state or the defendant shall be permitted to offer testimony as to all relevant facts and circumstances surrounding the killing and the previous relationship existing between the accused and the deceased, together with all relevant facts and circumstances going to show the condition of the mind of the accused at the time of the offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mays v. State · Smith v. State“[The] diminished-capacity doctrine at issue in this case is simply a failure-of-proof defense in which the defendant claims that the State failed to prove that the defendant had the required state of mind at the time of the offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parmer v. State · Hart v. State“correctly stated that Texas does not recognize diminished capacity as an affirmative defense, i.e., a lesser form of the defense of insanity”). 20 . See, e.g., United States v. Pohlot, 827 F.2d 889, 890 (3d Cir.1987) (explaining those concepts and noting that Congress precluded the assertion of a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rhoten v. State · Ruffin 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.