Goss v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Huffman v. State (2008), State v. Keiser (2002)
33 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 · West v. State · Tew v. State · Ex Parte Winton · Braxton 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... the culpable mental state thereby required for the offense of failing to stop and render aid is that the accused had knowledge of the circumstances surrounding his conduct [V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Sec. 6.03(b)], i.e., had knowledge that an accident had occurred." 582 S.W.2d at 785 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCown v. State · Jaynes v. State“(a) The operator of a vehicle involved in an accident that results or is reasonably likely to result in injury to or death of a person shall: (1) immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident or as close to the scene as possible; (2) immediately return to the scene of the accident if the vehicle is not stopped at the scene of the accident; (3) immediately determine whether a person is involved in an accident, and if a person is involved in the accident; (4) remain at the scene of the accident until the operator complies with the requirements of Section 550.023.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Steen v. State · Mayer v. State““If the definition of an offense does not prescribe a culpable mental state, a culpable mental state is nevertheless required unless the definition plainly dispenses with any mental element.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. State · Steen 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.