Luck v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Hernandez v. State (1986), Saxton v. State (1991)
2 federal appellate · 91 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 Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Murphy v. Florida · Albrecht v. State · Martin 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person commits an offense if he causes the death of an individual under circumstances that would constitute murder under Section 19.02 of this code, except that he caused the death under the immediate influence of sudden passion arising from an adequate cause. (b) "Sudden passion" means passion directly caused by and arising out of provocation by the individual killed or another acting with the person killed which passion arises at the time of the offense and is not solely the result of former provocation. (c) "Adequate cause" means cause that would commonly produce a degree of anger, rage, rensentment, or terror in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind incapable of cool reflection.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Moore v. State““... The effect of Subsection (d) is to require the state to disprove a defense beyond a reasonable doubt after the issue has been properly raised by the evidence. In other words, the defendant has the burden of producing evidence to raise a defense, but the prosecution has the final burden of persuasion to disprove it.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Saxton v. State · Zani v. State“If the issue of the existence of a defense is submitted to the jury, the court shall charge that a reasonable doubt on the issue requires that the defendant be acquitted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Saxton v. State · Green 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.