Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2019
21 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 Moore v. State · Montgomery v. State · Kirkpatrick 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) It is a defense to prosecution that the actor through mistake formed a reasonable belief about a matter of fact if his mistaken belief negated the kind of culpability required for the commission of the offense.[ 2 ]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Knowles v. State · Hill v. State“This [contention] ignores the rule that a defendant is entitled to submission of every defensive issue raised by the evidence. ... To hold as requested by the State would be to strike [the mistake of fact defense] from the Penal Code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willis v. State“The check was the instrumentality by which appellant received the cash. The use of a check does not render the evidence insufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.