Romo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably McFarland v. State (1996), Cordova v. State (1985)
80 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 Ransonette v. State · Blansett v. State · Harris v. State · Williams v. State · McCuin 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.
“" ‘In circumstances where a defendant, if guilty at all, is guilty as a party, then the court should properly apply the law of parties to the facts of the case, but the failure to do so is not reversible error unless there is a timely and sufficient objection.’ ””
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jaycon v. State · Kelly v. State““(a) A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the offense is committed by his own conduct, by the conduct of another for which he is criminally responsible, or by both. “(b) Each party to an offense may be charged with commission of the offense. “(c) All traditional distinctions between accomplices and principals are abolished by this section, and each party to an offense may be charged and convicted without alleging that he acted as a principal or accomplice.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Leger v. State · Jaycon v. State“"A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if: ... (2) acting with intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense, he solicits, encourages, directs, aids, or attempts to aid the other person to commit the offense; or....””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Jaycon v. State · Kelly 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.