Hooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
468 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 468 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Clayton v. State (2007), Williams v. State (2007)
468 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, 10th District (Waco))
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Malik v. State · Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp. v. Nortex Oil & Gas Corp. · Guevara v. State · Johnson 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 468 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each fact need not point directly and independently to the guilt of the appellant, as long as the cumulative force of all the incriminating circumstances is sufficient to support the conviction.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zarate v. State · Harper v. State“to fairly resolve conflicts in testimony, to weigh the evidence, and to draw reasonable inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n inference is a conclusion reached by considering other facts and deducing a logical consequence from them,”
12 later decisions 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.