Russell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Muniz v. State (1993), Livingston v. State (1987)
134 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Woodson v. North Carolina · Jurek v. Texas
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In circumstantial evidence cases it is not necessary, however, that every fact point directly and independently to the defendant’s guilt. It is enough if the conclusion is warranted by the combined and cumulative force of all the incriminating circumstances. Flores v. State, [ 551 S.W.2d 364 (Tex.Cr.App.1977) ] supra; Mills v. State, 508 S.W.2d 823 (Tex.Cr.App.1974); Herndon v. State, 543 S.W.2d 109 (Tex.Cr.App.1976). The rules of circumstantial evidence do not require that the circumstances should to a moral certainty actually exclude every hypothesis that the act may have been committed by another person, but the hypothesis intended is a reasonable one consistent with the circumstances and facts proved, and the supposition that the act may have been committed by another person must not be out of harmony with the evidence. Jones v. State, 442 S.W.2d 698 (Tex.Cr.App.1969); Taylor v. State, 87 Tex.Cr.R. 330 , 221 S.W. 611, 615 (Tex.Cr.App.1920); Flores v. State, supra.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Franklin v. State · Bogan v. State“(1) as employed in the first special issue, the word “deliberately” has a meaning different and distinct from the word “intentionally,” as that word was previously defined in the charge on guilt, and (2) instead, as employed in the first special issue, the word “deliberately” means a manner of doing an act characterized by or resulting from careful and thorough consideration; characterized by awareness of the consequences; willful, slow, unhurried, and steady as though allowing time for a decision. Id. at 787.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[I]n Harris County, Texas, VALERIE KAYE BROOKS, hereafter styled the defendant, heretofore on or about September 25, 1988, did then and there unlawfully intentionally and knowingly cause the death of William Kerry Wooten, hereafter styled the Complainant, by shooting the Complainant with a deadly weapon, namely, a firearm. It is further presented that in Harris County, Texas, VALERIE KAYE BROOKS, hereafter styled the Defendant, heretofore on or about September 25, 1988, did then and there unlawfully intend to cause serious bodily injury to William Kerry Wooten, hereafter styled the Complainant, and did cause the death of the Complainant by intentionally and knowingly committing an act clearly dangerous to human life, namely, by shooting the Complainant with a deadly weapon, namely, a firearm.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Zimmerman v. State · White 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.