Hall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2005
13 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 Royster v. State · Hart v. State · Dunlap v. State · Colman 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“HAROLD DOUGLAS GRANTHAM hereinafter called Defendant, in the County of Tarrant and State aforesaid, on or about the 27th day of November 1984, did THEN AND THERE INTENTIONALLY, WITH THE SPECIFIC INTENT TO COMMIT THE OFFENSE OF MURDER OF FORT WORTH POLICE OFFICER, C.W. GOODWIN, DO AN ACT, TO-WIT: SHOOT THE SAID C.W. GOODWIN WITH A FIREARM, AND SAID ACT AMOUNTED TO MORE THAN MERE PREPARATION THAT TENDED BUT FAILED TO EFFECT THE COMMISSION OF. SAID MURDER AND THE SAID OFFICER C.W. GOODWIN WAS THEN AND THERE A PEACE OFFICER WHO WAS ACTING IN THE LAWFUL DISCHARGE OF AN OFFICIAL DUTY AND THE SAID HAROLD DOUGLAS GRANTHAM THEN AND THERE KNEW THE SAID C.W. GOODWIN WAS A PEACE OFFICER.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grantham 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.