Sanchez, Orlando’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Almanza v. State · Malik v. State · Harris v. State · Ngo v. State · Hutch 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]either the manner (the actus reus ) nor the means (the 'instrument of death') need to be agreed upon unanimously by a jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Paz v. State · Diaz 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.