Pimentel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2003
2 federal appellate · 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 186th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1861 (Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968)
Relies on Michel v. United States · Almanza v. State · Yazoo County Industrial Development Corp. Et Al. v. Suthoff Et Al. · Cass v. United States · Alejandro 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 10th day of April, 1987, in Harris County, Texas, the defendant, Robert Andrew Richardson, did then and there unlawfully while intoxicated operate a motor vehicle and by accident or mistake collide said vehicle into the person of M.M. Groves, causing the death of M.M. Groves by reason of the intoxication of the Defendant; or if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 10th day of April, 1987, in Harris County, Texas, the defendant, Robert Andrew Richardson, did then and there unlawfully, while operating a motor vehicle, did collide said vehicle into the person of M.M. Groves, recklessly causing the death of M.M. Groves, by operating his vehicle at a greater rate of speed than was reasonable and prudent under the existing conditions, by failing to keep a proper lookout for M.M. Groves who was a pedestrian, by driving or operating a motor vehicle upon a public highway while intoxicated or by failing or refusing to comply with a lawful order or direction of a police officer invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic, then you will find the defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter as charged in the indictment. Unless you so find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, you will acquit the defendant of involuntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. State“I would like an instruction on an involuntary act, that specifically being, you are instructed that a person commits an offense only if he voluntarily engages in conduct, including an act, omission, or possession, conduct [sic] is not rendered involuntary merely because a person did not intend the results of his conduct. Therefore, if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on the occasion in question the defendant, Alfred Brown, did cause the death of Joseph Car-aballo by shooting him with a gun as alleged in the indictment, but you further believe from the evidence or have a reasonable doubt thereof that the shooting was the result of an accidental discharge of the gun and was not the voluntary act or conduct of the defendant, you will acquit the defendant and say by your verdict not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown 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.