McCuin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Ladd v. State (1999), Pitts v. State (1978)
46 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 Hannon v. State · 112 Tex. Crim. 395 - Durham v. State · Oliver v. State · 170 Tex. Crim. 208 - Lopez v. State · Lias 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... if the evidence introduced upon the trial of the cause shows, or raises an issue, that the conduct of the defendant then upon trial is not sufficient, in and of itself, to sustain a conviction, the State's case rests upon the law of principals and is dependent, at least in part, upon the conduct of another. In such a case, the law of principals must be submitted and made applicable to the facts of the case."”
14 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. LeDuc v. State · Rendon v. State““The court’s charge contained an abstract definition on the law of principals, but in no manner applied the same to the facts. “The jury was authorized by the charge to convict appellant upon a finding that he committed the murder, but the evidence is not such as would sustain such a finding. “The jury was not instructed to the effect that if Moody Puckett voluntarily killed the deceased and appellant acted with him as a principal, in one or more of the ways stated in the definition of that term, he should be convicted. “The trial court should have made application of the law of principals to the facts, the jury, under the facts here, not being warranted in convicting him unless they found that knowing of Puckett’s unlawful intent, he agreed to or aided or encouraged him in the commission of the offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Romo v. State““We note that in Durham , and in its progeny, the conduct of the defendant then on trial was, in and of itself, sufficient to convict the accused of the offense charged. On the other hand, in Oliver and its line of cases such fact situations did not exist. As appellant puts the distinction: “ ‘In Oliver the defendant did not shoot. In Crisp the defendant did not stab. In Barnes the defendant did not “take” the property. In Lopez the defendant also did not shoot. The law of principals was absolutely essential to those cases.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Romo 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.