Gonzales v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably State v. Holbron (1995), Thomas v. State (1977)
29 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 Martin v. State · Arivette v. State · Haas v. State · Sloan v. State · Rodriquez 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he appellant contends that the trial court erred in not submitting a charge on “attempted involuntary manslaughter.” The jury was instructed as to the law of attempted murder and aggravated assault. The statute defines involuntary manslaughter as a reckless act. For an offense to amount to a criminal attempt there must be a specific intent to commit the offense.... Attempted involuntary manslaughter would be a contradiction in terms under the new penal code. Involuntary manslaughter negates any specific intent to kill. One cannot intend to “involuntarily” kill another. We hold that the court did not err in refusing to submit the charge on “attempted involuntary manslaughter.” There is no offense of “attempted involuntary manslaughter.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.