Mayfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Solomon v. State (2001), Schmueser v. Burkburnett Bank (1991)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Almanza v. State · Sanders v. State · Green v. State · LeDuc v. State · Davis 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All persons are parties to an offense who are guilty of acting together in the commission of an offense. A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the offense is committed by his own conduct, by the conduct of another for which he is criminally responsible, or by both. A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if, 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. In this connection, however, the mere presence of a party at the scene of the commission of the offense does not make him a party to the offense. Likewise, mere knowledge that an offense is about to be committed by others will not make him a party to the offense, nor will his knowledge that the offense is being committed by others, or has been committed by others, nor will his failure to give alarm, his silence or inaction, make him a party to the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fincher v. State · Navarro v. State“Now, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that ... Nicholas Edwards did intentionally or knowingly, while in the course of committing theft of property, and with intent to obtain and maintain control of said property, cause bodily injury to Percy West-moreland and said Percy Westmoreland was then and there older than sixty-four years of age, and that ... Frankie Green, acted with intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense by Nicholas Edwards by encouraging, aiding, or attempting to aid Nicholas Edwards to commit the aforesaid offense, by entering into an agreement with Nicholas Edwards to rob Percy Westmore-land and being present when Nicholas Edwards robbed Percy Westmoreland, or by fleeing the scene of the robbery and assisting Nicholas Edwards in fleeing the scene of the robbery and the defendant, Frankie Green, knew that Nicholas Edwards had robbed Percy Westmoreland, or entered into an agreement with Nicholas Edwards to rob Percy Westmore-land and assisted Nicholas Edwards in hiding the proceeds of the robbery[,] then you will find the defendant, Frankie Green, guilty of aggravated robbery as charged in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green 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.