Garcia, Aima Lorena’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 11th District (Eastland))
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Tibbs v. Florida · Malik v. State · Brooks v. State · Hooper 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ready to take place, near at hand, impending, hanging threateningly over one's head, menacingly near.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meza v. State“Texas courts have interpreted 'impairment' to include the diminished function of a bodily organ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“people of common intelligence understand pain and some of the natural causes of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fang 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.