Bussey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2013
11 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 154 Tex. Crim. 263 - Massey v. State · 109 Tex. Crim. 668 - Duncan v. State · Zepeda v. State · Sullivan v. State · 154 Tex. Crim. 399 - Burris 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the instant case, no witness testified to the cause of the fire, and indeed, no one even ventured an opinion as to the cause. The State made no attempt to negate the possibility that the fire resulted from defective electrical wiring, a defective water heater, spontaneous combustion, or any other one of the myriad of possible ways in which a house may burn without anyone being criminally responsible therefor. * * * [W]e have motive, declaration of intent, appellant placed in the vicinity of the house shortly before the fire, and the possibility that the fire could have started from another origin. . There is no testimony that anyone saw appellant set the house afire, and no testimony that the house was set afire.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. RCS v. State · R. C. S. 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.