Mahavier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2003
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 175th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Chambers v. Mississippi · Tibbs v. Florida · Oregon v. Kennedy · Kissinger v. Halperin
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. at 67-68. 7 The voluntary manslaughter statute in Texas applicable at the time of the offense provided in relevant part: (a) A person commits an offense [of voluntary manslaughter] if he causes the death of an individual under circumstances that would constitute murder under Section 19.02 of this code, except that he caused the death under the immediate influence of sudden passion arising from an adequate cause. (b)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayabb v. Johnson“means cause that would commonly produce a degree of anger, rage, resentment, or terror in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind incapable of cool reflection. TEXAS PENAL CODE ANN. § 19.04 (Vernon 1974); see Mahavier v. State, 644 S.W.2d 129, 130 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 1982). 8 Mayabb argues that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayabb v. Johnson“means passion directly caused by and arising out of provocation by the individual killed or another acting with the person killed which passion arises at the time of the offense and is not solely the result of former provocation. (c)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayabb v. Johnson
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.