Crawford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2018
4 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 Brasfield v. State · King 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“aggravated” would nevertheless be superfluous. Under § 21.03(a)(1), supra, a rape may be aggravated where the defendant "causes serious bodily injury or attempts to cause death to the victim or another in the course of the same criminal episode[.]” A defendant who, in the course of committing an otherwise simple rape against one victim, intentionally causes the death of "another,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Muniz v. State“where the Court reversed a conviction for capital murder because the indictment was 'susceptible of an interpretation that the victim of the alleged kidnapping was a person other than the named deceased.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wood, Cynthia Kaye
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.