Beltran v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Dues v. State (1982), Romo v. State (1980)
48 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 Haynes v. State · Gholson v. State · Romo v. State · Miller 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) A person commits an offense [arson] if he starts a fire or causes an explosion: “(1) without the effective consent of the owner and with intent to destroy or damage the owner's building or habitation.” [Emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Romo v. State · Myers v. State““An extrajudicial writing may be admitted as circumstantial evidence from which an inference may be drawn, and not for the truth of the matter stated therein, without violating the hearsay rule.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gilmore v. State · Elder 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.