Mallory v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Helton v. State (1993), Baumgartner v. State (2008)
25 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 Thomas v. Southtrust Bank of Alabama · Alfaro v. State · State v. Downey · Bailey v. State · Stanger 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“individuals of ordinary intelligence would comprehend it to adequately inform them of the conduct to be proscribed. The statute need only inform the individual of the generally proseribed conduct; a statute need not list, with itemized exactitude, each item of conduct pro-seribed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Guidry v. State“"A person having the care of a dependent, whether assumed voluntarily or because of a legal obligation, who knowingly or intentionally: (1) places the dependent in a situation that may endanger his life or health; ... commits neglect of a dependent, a class D felony."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kerlin v. State“trial court did not unreasonably consider that neglect of a very young child is worse that [sic] the same behavior toward an older, more capable dependent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Brown 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.