Altmeyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Phillips v. State (1990), Goudy v. State (1997)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Johnson v. State · Dorton v. State · Smith v. State · Stout v. State · Jarrett 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test for determining whether it was error to refuse an instruction of a lesser included, offense is: 1) whether the language of the statute and the charging document necessarily included the lesser offense in the greater, and 2) whether evidence was introduced at trial to which the included offense instruction was applicable. The evidence must be subject to the interpretation not only that the lesser offense was committed, but also that the greater offense was not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patterson v. State“1) whether the language of the statute and the charging document necessarily included the lesser offense in the greater, and 2) whether evidence was introduced at trial to which the included offense was applicable. []. The evidence must be subject to the interpretation not only that the lesser offense was committed, but also that the greater offense was not. [].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pedrick 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.