Jefferson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Stuhler v. State (2007), Huffman v. State (2008)
1 federal appellate · 72 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, 14th District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Schad v. Arizona · Richardson v. United States · Ngo v. State · Sengupta v. University of Alaska · Allustiarte v. United 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e must return to eighth-grade grammar to determine what elements the jury must unanimously find beyond a reasonable doubt. At a minimum, these are: the subject (the defendant); the main verb; and the direct object if the main verb requires a direct object (i.e., the offense is a result oriented crime).... Generally, adverbial phrases, introduced by the preposition “by,” describe the manner and means of committing the offense. They are not the gravamen of the offense, nor elements on which the jury must be unanimous.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Pizzo v. State · State v. Donaldson“(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence, by act or intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly by omission, causes to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual: (1) serious bodily injury; (2) serious mental deficiency, impairment, or injury; or (3) bodily injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[J]ury unanimity is required on the essential elements of the offense”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pizzo v. State · O'Brien 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.