Gutierrez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2013
10 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 Kissinger v. Halperin · Carrillo v. State · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Pitts v. State · Bates 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Paragraph 9] Therefore, if you believe beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 4th day of January of 1985, in Tarrant County, Texas, that Ray Jennings intentionally or knowingly caused the death of an individual James Henry Dudley, Jr., or with intent to cause serious bodily injury to James Henry Dudley, Jr. committed an act clearly dangerous to human life by hitting or striking him with a deadly weapon, to-wit: a mattock, commonly called a pick-ax, that in the manner of its use and intended use was capable of causing death or serious bodily injury, but you further find that there was not a common design and intent of both Ray Jennings and Kenneth Bernard Givens to commit the offense of murder of James Henry Dudley, Jr. or if you find that the murder of James Henry Dudley, Jr. was committed by Ray Jennings who was acting independently of Kenneth Bernard Givens and that the murder of James Henry Dudley, Jr. was not done in furtherance of the conspiracy to rob James Henry Dudley, Jr. or that Kenneth Bernard Givens should not have anticipated the murder of James Henry Dudley Jr. as a result of the carrying out of the conspiracy then you will acquit the Defendant and say by your verdict, not guilty. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Givens v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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