Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Cook v. State (1994), Smith v. State (1984)
42 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 Crocker v. State · Robinson v. State · Rogers v. State · Smith v. State · West 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now bearing in mind the foregoing instructions if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 21st day of May, 1982 in Wise County, Texas that the defendant, Jimmy Rex Whaley, while acting as a party as that term is hereinbefore defined, by his own conduct, or by the conduct of Charles Opie Jones for whom he was criminally responsible, or by both the conduct of Jimmy Rex Whaley and Charles Opie Jones, committed the offense of unlawful delivery of Hydromor-phone in an amount of less than twenty-eight (28) grams by acting with the intent to promote or assist the commission of said offense by soliciting, encouraging, directing, aiding or attempting to aid, Charles Opie Jones to commit said offense as alleged in Count III of the Indictment, you will find the defendant guilty of the offense of unlawful delivery of Hydromorphone in an amount of less than twenty-eight (28) grams, but if you do not so find or have a reasonable doubt thereof you will find the defendant ‘Not Guilty.’ ” (Emphasis added to show portion of charge believed by appellant to be comment on weight of the evidence by the trial judge.) 2”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tisdell v. State · Fielder v. State“"[I]f you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that ... the Defendant ... intentionally or knowingly caused the death of JASON BLAIR PHILLIPS, by shooting him with a gun, and that the Murder was intentionally committed in the course of committing or attempting to commit kidnapping, you shall find the Defendant guilty of the offense of Capital Murder." [Emphasis supplied.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I would next like to address myself to the charge. And the charge says that . . . [the complainant] herself does not have to physically believe that she is being threatened. It says — and look at the first page — if she is forced to compel submission to the rape by threat of death or serious bodily injury to be imminently inflicted on anyone. So if she was forced to submit to the offense, to be raped, because she thought her boyfriend was going to be killed, under that sentence right there you can find this defendant guilty. The law is there.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hannah 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.