Rocha v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2012
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Robinson v. State · Moore v. State · Brooks v. State · Garcia v. State · Ormsby 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 24 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 in Harris County, Texas, on or about the 23rd day of August, 2008, the defendant, Narada Hicks, did then and there unlawfully, intentionally or knowingly cause bodily injury to Angelo Jackson by using a deadly weapon, namely, a firearm, then you will find the defendant guilty of aggravated assault intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury, as charged in the indictment. Unless you so find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, or if you are unable to agree, you will next consider whether the defendant is guilty of the lesser offense of aggravated assault-recklessly causing bodily injury. Therefore, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 23rd day of August, 2008, in Harris County, Texas, the defendant, Narada Hicks, did then and there unlawfully, recklessly cause bodily injury to Angelo Jackson by using a deadly weapon, namely a firearm, then you will find the defendant guilty of aggravated assault-recklessly causing bodily injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hicks v. State“(1) the charge authorized a conviction for the lesser included offense of aggravated assault, upon a finding that appellant acted recklessly; (2) the charge was fundamentally defective because it authorized a conviction for the lesser included offense of aggravated assault if the jury found that appellant inflicted serious bodily injury on complainant, without requiring the jury to find that the serious bodily injury was caused by the gun shots; (3) the charge, on the punishment phase, instructed the jury to set the duration of appellant’s probation at the same period as the term of years assessed; and (4) the charge failed to clearly instruct the jury that the law of self defense and use of deadly force was applicable to the lesser included offense of aggravated offense as well as to the attempted murder offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. State“[d]id then and there intentionally and knowingly cause serious bodily injury to Tristón Castillo, a child 14 years or younger by then and there striking the child with a deadly weapon, to wit: the defendant’s hands or by striking the child’s head against a deadly weapon, to wit: a wall or a floor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.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.