Denham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Esquivel v. State (1980), Smith v. State (1984)
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 Limuel v. State · McElroy v. State · Gulf Coast State Bank v. Emenhiser · Williams v. State · Danzig 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) 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.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““In this State, the opinions of lay witnesses, when competent, are admissible •concerning sanity, insanity, value, handwriting, intoxication, physical condition— health and disease, estimates of age, size, weight, quantity, time, distance, speed, identity of persons and things. . . . ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ . . . Surely one who observes and receives a wound from a butcher knife is capable of testifying that the knife is a deadly weapon capable of causing death or serious bodily injury. We decline to hold that further testimony is needed to justify the jury in finding such knife to be a deadly weapon. This is common knowledge that any lay witness is competent to testify to. “In the case of Acosta v. State, 179 S.W. 870 (Tex.Cr.App.1915), this Court held: “ ‘Appellant contends that a razor is not per se a deadly weapon. We are inclined to believe that all mankind know that death can be inflicted by a razor in the hands of a grown man.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cruz 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.