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← 367 S.W.3d 659 - Muhammad v. State

Muhammad v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Day v. State · Vaca v. State · Bequette v. State · Muhammad 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Court: Has your attorney fully explained the nature of the charges pending against you? Muhammad: Yes, sir. Court: Has she explained the elements that make up the crime and any possible defenses you might have? Muhammad: Yes, sir.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[s]elf defense is not a technical or sophisticated legal defense that is beyond the knowledge of a lay person.”
    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.