Cape v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Smith v. Francis (1985), Hance v. Zant (1983)
6 federal appellate · 67 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.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Doyle v. Ohio · Green v. Georgia · Hawes v. State · Fleming 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From the evidence presented at trial, the jury was authorized to find the following facts: “The appellant, a 56-year-old male, was the uncle of the victim’s mother. He was well acquainted with the victim’s family. The victim’s father and the appellant had hunted and fished together often. He had socialized with the victim’s family on many occasions, and had worked with the victim’s brother. He had developed a close relationship with all the members of the family, including the victim, a 15 year old high school student. “Approximately three months prior to the murder, the appellant had been told by the victim’s mother to stay away from the victim. The mother testified that the appellant ‘seemed a little too interested in her.’ The victim was also told to stay away from the appellant. In response, the appellant ceased visiting the family but continued to see the victim’s father and brother at their places of employment. “The appellant had promised to buy the victim an expensive car. They had looked at the car together. On the 14th day of May, the appellant had signed a purchase order. He had asked for a delay in delivery in order to get funds from a Texas bank. It was later established at trial that the appellant did not have such an account. “On the morning of the murder, the appellant drove the victim and her friend, Tammy Lee Dickerson, to school. He talked to the victim alone in the car for a few minutes after her friend went into the school. The victim was last seen alive”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cape v. Francis · Cape v. Francis“`to control the trial of the case and to insure a fair trial to both sides on the disputed issues.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.