Dennis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably DeVaughn v. State (1988), Thompson v. State (1985)
34 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 American Plant Food Corporation v. State · Ex Parte Cannon · Warren v. State · Reynolds v. State · Seaton 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 30th day of July, A.D., 2002, in Bexar County, Texas, the defendant, Joe Naranjo, with intent to deprive the owner of property, did unlawfully appropriate stolen property, to-wit: one (1) trailer, by acquiring or otherwise exercising control over said property, ..., the said property having been stolen from William [Weeby], its lawful owner; and Joe Naranjo acquired said property by means unknown to the grand jurors, knowing that it was stolen by another, then you will find the defendant guilty of theft, as charged in the indictment. If you do not so believe, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, you will find the defendant not guilty. You are instructed that appropriation of property is unlawful if it is without the owner[’]s effective consent, or if the property is stolen and the actor appropriates the property knowing it was stolen by another. An actor engaged in the business of obtaining abandoned or wrecked motor vehicles or parts of an abandoned or wrecked motor vehicle for resale, disposal, scrap, repair, rebuilding, demolition, or other form of salvage is presumed to know on receipt by the actor of stolen property that the property has been previously stolen from another if the actor knowingly or recklessly fails on receipt of a motor vehicle to obtain a certificate of authority, sales receipt, or a certificate of title showing that the motor vehicle is not subject to a hen or that ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Naranjo v. State““(a) A person commits an offense if he unlawfully appropriates property with intent to deprive the owner of property, (b) Appropriation of property is unlawful if: (2) the property is stolen and the actor appropriates the property knowing it was stolen by another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Muniz 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.