Abbott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 40th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Bruton v. United States · Krulewitch v. United States · Satterwhite v. Texas
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the appellate record in a criminal case reveals constitutional error that is subject to harmless error review, the court of appeals must reverse a judgment of conviction or punishment unless the court determines beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not contribute to the conviction or punishment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Duffey v. State · Carr v. State“[I]t is a jury, not a reviewing court, that accepts or rejects reasonably equal competing theories of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.