Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Williams v. State (2007), Tompkins v. State (1987)
82 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 Dezelle v. State · Reyna v. State · Stiles v. State · Brown v. State · 76 Tex. Crim. 126 - Harris 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person acts with criminal negligence, or is criminally negligent, with respect to circumstances surrounding his conduct or the result of his conduct when he ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the actor’s standpoint.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dowden v. State · Moore v. State“[a]t the heart of reckless conduct is conscious disregard of the risk created by the actor's conduct[.]”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Aliff v. State · Barcenes v. State“A person acts recklessly, or is reckless, with respect to circumstances surrounding his conduct or the result of his conduct when he is aware of but consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that its disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the actor’s standpoint.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State · Moore 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.