Sledge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
November 1989
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 63 Tex. Crim. 618 - Wells v. State · 126 Tex. Crim. 185 - Petty v. State · 58 Tex. Crim. 443 - Newman v. State · 97 Tex. Crim. 583 - Mack v. State · Beggs 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As with self defense, it is required that the person defending his habitation act upon a reasonable fear. This reasonableness is, of course, determined by the facts as they appeared to the defendant at the time. If the evidence has any tendency to raise the issue of defense of the person as well as defense of property, the court must give a separate charge on each theory. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Venegas 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.