Beck v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Tompkins v. State (1987), Daniels v. State (1988)
37 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 Thomas v. State · Carrillo v. State · McManus v. State · Phillips v. State · May 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“then and there unlawfully while in the course of committing and attempting to commit the aggravated robbery of David L. Reed, hereafter styled the Complainant, intentionally cause the death of the Complainant by shooting the Complainant with a gun....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marras 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.