Cameron v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably Renner v. State (1990), Paxton v. State (1993)
26 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 · Blalock v. Blalock · Rivers v. State · Davis v. State · Ford 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“serves no real purpose, as it is a particularization of the general charge on circumstantial evidence, and as the state is free to use circumstantial evidence of flight to argue the defendant's guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mitchell v. State · Paxton v. State“I would abolish the jury instruction on flight in criminal cases. The charge serves no real purpose, as it is a particularization of the general charge on circumstantial evidence, and as the state is free to use circumstantial evidence of flight to argue the defendant's guilt.... Moreover, the charge inevitably carries with it the potential of being interpreted by the jury as an intimation of opinion by the court that there is evidence of flight and that the circumstances of flight imply the guilt of the defendant; this is especially true since the trial court does not give specific charges on other circumstances from which guilt or innocence may be inferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Renner v. State“[t]he circumstances surrounding [the] murder are sufficient for a jury to find the necessary intent to steal from [the victim] before his death to convict [appellant] of . . . robbery. [Cit.] The evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction for murder [and] . . . robbery. . . . Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd 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.