Green v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Harris v. State (1989), Narvaiz v. State (1992)
4 federal appellate · 121 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 Rakas v. Illinois · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Woodson v. North Carolina · Enmund v. Florida
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.
“(a) A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if: [[Image here]] (2) acting with intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense, he solicits, encourages, directs, aids or attempts to aid the other person to commit the offense ... (b) If, in the attempt to carry out a conspiracy to commit one felony, another felony is committed by one of the conspirators, all conspirators are guilty of the felony actually committed, though having no intent to commit it, if the offense was committed in furtherance of the unlawful purpose and was one that should have been anticipated as a result of the carrying out of the conspiracy,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State · Ex Parte Jacobs““Upon request by a capital murder defendant or the State, the jury is to be instructed at the punishment phase that only the conduct of the defendant can be considered at the punishment phase, and that the instructions pertaining to the law of parties given at the guilt stage cannot be considered. Appellant did not request any such charge in this case.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cuevas v. State · Belyeu v. State“[T]he death penalty may be imposed only by examination of the mitigating and aggravating circumstances concerning the individual defendant. [citations omitted]. This examination is performed in Texas through the special issues.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Green · Buxton 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.