Hall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably Godsey v. State (1986), Brown v. State (2003)
30 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 Jennings v. Texas · City of Corpus Christi v. City of Pleasanton · 150 Tex. Crim. 45 - Kincaid v. State · Hernandez v. State · 168 Tex. Crim. 629 - Flores 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established that a specific intent to kill is an essential element of the offense of assault with intent to murder. The intent to kill is a fact question, the existence of which must be determined by the trier of the facts, judge or jury, from the evidence and cannot be presumed as a matter of law. Hunter v. State, 161 Tex.Cr.R. 225 , 275 S.W.2d 803 . “The trier of the facts may, however, infer the intent from any facts in evidence which to his mind proves the existence of such intent to kill * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunter 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.