Grady v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Whaley v. State (1986), Smith v. State (1998)
27 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 Rummel v. Estelle · Cumbie v. State · Boles v. State · Doyle v. State · Manry 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 12th day of September, 1983, Tarrant County, Texas, the defendant, Jeffery William Koffel, did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the penetration of the mouth of M_ M_, a child younger than 14 years of age who was not the spouse of said defendant with the sexual organ of said defendant, you will find the defendant guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child as charged in Paragraph Two of the indictment; if you do not so believe or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, you will acquit the defendant and say by your verdict ‘not guilty.’ [Emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Now, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 13th day May, 1988, in Harris County, Texas the Defendant, John Fitzgerald Collins, did then and there unlawfully while in the course of committing theft of property owned by Lavada Armington Gilder, and with intent to obtain or maintain control of the property, intentionally or knowingly threaten or place Lavada Armington Gilder in fear of imminent bodily injury or death, by using or exhibiting a deadly weapon, namely, firearm, then you will find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McGowan v. State · Collins v. State“Fundamental error in a trial court’s charge does not occur unless it ... was calculated to injure the rights of a defendant or that from the record as a whole it reflects that the error in the charge prevented a defendant from receiving a fair and impartial trial. Boles v. State, 598 S.W.2d 274,278 (Tex.Cr.App.1980).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · Medina 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.