Savant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2015
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 Dowden v. State · McCuin v. State · 112 Tex. Crim. 395 - Durham v. State · Oliver v. State · 67 Tex. Crim. 441 - Johnson 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, therefore, if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about January 12, 1976, in El Paso County, Texas, John Lewis, either caused the death of Edward Figueroa by driving a motor vehicle, to wit: an automobile, into and causing it to collide with a motor vehicle, to wit: a pickup truck driven by the said Edward Figueroa, or John Lewis intended to cause serious bodily injury and committed an act clearly dangerous to human life, to wit, drove a motor vehicle, to wit: an automobile into and causing it to collide with a motor vehicle, to wit: a pickup truck, driven by the said Edward Figueroa, that caused his death, and if you further believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, that on or about January 12, 1976, in El Paso County, Texas, the Defendant, Richard Apodaca, as a party, solicited, encouraged, directed, aided or attempted to aid the said John Lewis in the foregoing action, you will find the said Richard Apo-daca guilty of Murder as charged in the ■ indictment . . .” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Apodaca v. State“either acting alone or together with some other person or persons as a principle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones 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.