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Owen v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
5
states following
November 2011
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably State v. Artis (1989), Gardner v. State (1987)

2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions

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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 Brumfield v. State · Johnson v. State · Griffin v. State · Brown v. State · Hicks 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “They had the opportunity to present any evidence to you that they wished. I would submit to you that the first step in rehabilitating somebody, the first step in granting somebody probation is for him to at least say that he is sorry for what happened.”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Montoya v. State · Jones v. State
  2. “"`He [deceased] was a living breathing human being that is not here today to tell us how he feels about what happened because of Lewis Owen [appellant]. Now, in the Defendant's testimony you heard the Defense rest, they did not present any testimony to you, but in the testimony you heard this morning, I submit to you and by your verdict, you have said that he lied to you. He lied to you about that self-defense theory. He had the opportunity to come up here and say to you that he was sorry. I submit to you—'"”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jones v. State · Litaker 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.