Blount v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1997
6 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 172 Tex. Crim. 303 - Barnes v. State · 31 Tex. Crim. 586 - Hatton v. State · Ammann v. State · 164 Tex. Crim. 395 - Lott v. State · Rodriguez 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The specific intent to kill is an essential element of the offense of assault with intent to murder. Art. 1160, P.C., Vernon’s Ann.P.C. art. 1160. Such intent may be inferred when the instrument used in committing the assault is a deadly weapon. If the weapon used is not deadly, the intent to kill on the part of the accused may be ascertained from and shown by the surrounding facts and circumstances. If it is possible that death might have been inflicted by the weapon used, and if the accused intended thereby to take life by the use made thereof, the offense of assault with intent to murder is complete, even though the instrument used was not a deadly weapon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gentsch v. State““If it was possible that death might have been inflicted by the weapon, and the defendant intended to take life, though the weapon was not a deadly weapon, still he might be guilty of an assault with intent to murder. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boazman 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.