Mosley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Denham v. State (1978), Limuel v. State (1978)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Day v. State · Hays v. State · 155 Tex. Crim. 233 - Brown v. State · Shadle 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(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. Danzig v. State · Turner v. State““It would appear that prior Texas law provided, as here, that an instrument may become a deadly weapon by the manner of its use or capability for use.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Danzig v. State · Turner v. State““Our prior opinions on the meaning of ‘deadly weapon’ do and should have instructional significance under the new Penal Code. This approach is particularly appropriate in light of the fact that the Legislature has apparently codified our prior case law definition of the term.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner 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.