Lavern v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 2011
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 338th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Almanza v. State · Clewis v. State · Johnson v. State · Rousseau 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile a non-testifying defendant may be entitled to a charge on self-defense, it is rare for the defense to be raised when the defendant fails to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.