Govan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably Cathey v. State (1999), Brown v. State (1986)
32 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 Vaughn v. State · Seefurth v. State · Stein v. State · Hackbarth v. State · Mauldin 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Therefore, although the Court of Appeals’ holding that the trial court erroneously failed to apply the law of parties to the facts of the case is correct, the Court of Appeals must consider whether the charging error was harmless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State · Black v. State“because the evidence ... clearly supports [Govan's] guilt as a principal actor, the error of the trial court in charging on the law of parties was harmless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State · Black v. State“the unnecessary inclusion of the abstract definition of the law of parties and the addition of the phrase `acting alone or as a party as that term is defined herein' to the application paragraph of the jury charge was harmless error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.