Temple, David Mark’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
64
cited by 64 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
64 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brooks v. State · Hooper v. State · Clayton v. State · King 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each fact need not point directly and independently to the guilt of the appellant, as long as the cumulative force of all the incriminating circumstances is sufficient to support the conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibbs v. State“When the record supports conflicting inferences, we presume that the factfinder resolved the conflicts in favor of the verdict, and we defer to that determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibbs v. State“so outrageous that no rational trier of fact could agree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owens 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.