Aranda v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2011
19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 49th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Adams v. Texas · United States v. Bailey · Albrecht 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“John Hernandez ... with specific intent to commit the offense of capital murder, did an act amounting to more than mere preparation that tended but failed to effect the commission of the offense intended, in that he intentionally attempted to cause the death of an individual, Merced Torres, a peace officer who was acting in the lawful discharge of an official duty and who John Hernandez knew was a peace officer, by pointing a gun at Merced Torres and pulling the trigger of the gun.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hernandez v. State““[T]he very fact of a capital murder indictment places the defendant on notice that conviction will result in either life imprisonment or the death penalty. Id., §§ 19.02(b), 12.31(a). Clearly, the defendant so charged is also placed on notice that the legal procedure to be followed in the event of conviction for capital murder is that stated in Tex.Code Crim.Pro.Ann. art. 37.071 (Vernon 1981).” Aranda, supra, at 770 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Castillo 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.