Henley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth))
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · United States v. Scheffer · Montgomery v. State · Clewis v. State · Andersen v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may exclude relevant evidence if its probative value is substantially outweighed by a danger of one or more of the following: unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, misleading the jury, undue delay, or needlessly presenting cumulative evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzalez v. State“[A] defendant is justified in defending a third person if, under the circumstances as the defendant reasonably believes them to be, the third person would be justified in defending himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably believes that his intervention is immediately necessary to protect the third person”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young 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.