McElroy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Bell v. State (1985), Hammett v. State (1979)
43 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 Chapman v. State of California · Harrington v. California · McBrayer v. State · Ames v. State · Bermudez 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person commits an offense if, in the course of committing theft as defined in Chapter 31 of this Code and with intent to obtain or maintain control of the property, he: (1) intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury to another; or (2) intentionally or knowingly threatens or places another in fear of imminent bodily injury or death....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Banks v. State · Williams v. State““(11) ‘Deadly weapon’ means: (A) a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or (B) anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Alvarez v. State · Hawkins v. State““(a) A person commits an offense if he commits assault as defined in Section 22.01 of this code and he: “(1) ■ • • “(2) causes bodily injury to a peace officer in the lawful discharge of official duty when he knows or has been informed the person assaulted is a peace officer; or “(3) . . . “(b) The actor is presumed to have known the person assaulted was a peace officer if he was wearing a distinctive uniform indicating his employment as a peace officer. “(c) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Craig 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.