Ransonette v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Hankins v. State (1983), Villarreal v. State (1978)
81 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Moore v. Illinois · Webb v. State · Means 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A charge on circumstantial evidence is required only where the evidence of the main fact essential to guilt is purely and entirely circumstantial. See e. g. Wilson v. State, 154 Tex.Cr.R. 59 , 225 S.W.2d 173 (1949). A charge on circumstantial evidence is necessary only when the State’s case depends entirely upon circumstances for conviction. See e. g. Nailing v. State, 152 Tex.Cr.R. 161 , 211 S.W.2d 757 (1948); Wells v. State, 134 Tex.Cr.R. 412 , 115 S.W.2d 658 (1938) . . . See 31 Tex.Jur.2d 682-683, Instructions, Sec. 123”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ahearn v. State · Loving v. State“[T]here are situations in which evidence is obviously of such substantial value to the defense that elementary fairness requires it to be disclosed even without a specific request [from a defendant].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Lewis““The standard to be applied in cases of suppression or nondisclosure of evidence by the State is whether the testimony may have had an effect on the outcome of the trial.” Ransonette, supra at 39 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nastu 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.