Ormsby v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Hall v. State (2007), Lugo v. State (1984)
31 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 Schiller v. Rice · Lewis v. State · Moore v. State · Ex Parte Ross · Esparza 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person acts with criminal negligence, or is criminally negligent, with respect to circumstances surrounding his conduct or the result of his conduct when he ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the actor’s standpoint."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“by accident and mistake when operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, and by reason of such intoxication cause[d] the death of an individual, William Shaw by then and there driving said motor vehicle into and causing it to collide with a motor vehicle occupied by the said William Shaw, an individual.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A person commits an offense if he causes the death of an individual by criminal negligence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Graham v. State · Thomas 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.