Delapaz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 204th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Malik v. State · Highwarden 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it either contains an application paragraph specifying all of the conditions to be met before a conviction under such theory is authorized, or contains an application paragraph authorizing a conviction under conditions specified by other paragraphs of the jury charge to which the application paragraph necessarily and unambiguously refers, or contains some logically consistent combination of such paragraphs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williamson 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.