Lancon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Brooks v. State (2010), Laster v. State (2009)
134 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 Clewis v. State · Johnson v. State · Cain v. State · Watson v. State · Zuniga 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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“eviscerat[ing] our case law for reviewing the factual sufficiency of evidence and effectively preclud[ing] any sufficiency review when the jury's decision is based upon an evaluation of credibility, which virtually each and every jury verdict is to some extent”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lancon v. State · In Re Drt“(1) to review all of the evidence; (2) to review that evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict; and (3) to give deference to the jury on credibility and conflicts in the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Temple v. State“to conduct a factual sufficiency review in accordance with [its] opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lancon 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.