Vasquez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Kitchens v. State (1991), Marquez v. State (1987)
43 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 Quinones v. State · Penagraph v. State · Combs v. State · Cowan v. State · Pinkerton 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.
“If there is sufficient evidence to prove one of the two ways of committing the offense, this Court need not consider whether the evidence is also sufficient to prove the alternative theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“Since the appellant failed to object to the charge or move to force the State to elect, and the jury returned a general verdict ... [appellant’s contention was without merit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pimentel 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.