Arnwine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
July 2015
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 185th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Muniz v. State · United States v. Posada-Rios · Reich-Bacot v. State · Alford v. State · Brown 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rationale of the defense is not that the defendant, faced with the unnerving threat of harm unless he does an act which violates the literal language of the criminal law, somehow loses his mental capacity to commit the crime in question. Nor is it that the defendant has not engaged in a voluntary act. Rather, it is that even though he has done the act the crime requires and has the mental state which the crime requires, his conduct which violates the literal language of the criminal law is justified because he has thereby avoided a harm of greater magnitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elliott 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.