Richardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2000
6 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 Burks v. United States · Greene v. Massey · Cherb v. State · Saunders v. State · Johnson 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits an offense if, with intent that a capital felony or felony of the first degree be committed, he requests, commands, or attempts to induce another to engage in specific conduct that, under the circumstances surrounding his conduct as the actor believes them to be, would constitute the felony or make the other a party to its commission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Hancock: Hello, hey. Appellant: Hello, Billy. Hancock: Hey, yeah. I tried to talk to you yesterday. Appellant: My line is tapped. Hancock: Huh? Appellant: My line is tapped. They got a monitor on my line. Hancock: O.K. Did you take care of what you said? Appellant: I already gave her fifty. Hancock: Huh? Appellant: I worked Jimmy yesterday and seen that Bonnie got 50 — dollars you know. Hancock: Oh, is that gonna, that gonna be the end of it or you gonna see is she’s gonna get more? Appellant: As soon as the other stuff comes through, it will be taken care of. Hancock: Uh huh, cause like I say, I’m up here sweating this thing out and I ain’t talked to nobody yet. And I don’t want to talk to nobody. I just want to make sure everything’s taken care of on that end. [[Image here]] Hancock: Hey, yeah, hey man. Let’s go ahead and get this damn thing squared away, man. I gotta get the, I’m fixing to go to the damn federal pen. And I wanna know if my damn share of this is gonna be squared away before I get the hell out of Houston. Appellant: There ain’t no doubt about it. You know, I do what I can do. Hancock: Well you’re going, you’re going to come across with more than 50 cause that ain’t gonna make it along with them kids and Bonnie. Appellant: I can only come across with whi t I got. Hancock: Well, you remember what we talked about and you said ‘Yeah that’d be cool. You had it all together.’? Appellant: Yes, but I gotta get the stuff to do it, don’t I? And it ain’t come in. Hanco”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. State“A person may not be convicted under this section on the uncorroborated testimony of the person allegedly solicited and unless the solicitation is made under circumstances strongly corroborative of both the solicitation itself and the actor's intent that the other person act on the solicitation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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