Denton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Edgecomb v. State (1996), French v. State (2002)
33 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1708 · 18 U.S.C. § 751
Relies on Hullum v. United States · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · Csaky v. Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill, Noyes, Inc. · Ashton v. Anderson · Bernard 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“VERDICT "WE, THE JURY FIND THAT: (1) THE STATE (HAS/HAS NOT) PROVED BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT THE DEFENDANT, TERRY L. CRISS, WAS CONVICTED OF RAPE, A FELONY, ON OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 27, 1976 AND SENTENCED THEREON. AND (2) THE STATE (HAS/HAS NOT) PROVED BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT THE DEFENDANT, TERRY L. CRISS, WAS CONVICTED OF ATTEMPT [sic] ROBBERY, A FELONY, ON OR ABOUT MAY 15, 1980 AND SENTENCED THEREON. WE THEREFORE FIND THAT THE DEFENDANT, TERRY L CRISS (HAS/HAS NOT) ACCUMULATED TWO OR MORE PRIOR UNRELATED FELONY CONVICTIONS, AND THAT HE (IS/IS NOT) AN HABITUAL OFFENDER."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Criss v. State“give rise to a potential for misconstruction or undue emphasis, or do not present a danger of speculation by the jury as to the relative importance of different instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lineback 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.