Marlo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2017
16 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 · Carrillo v. State · Villarreal v. State · Russell v. State · May v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“common understanding” existed between the appellant and the two witnesses that some offense would be committed; that use of deadly force was contemplated, however jokingly; and that both had participated in the disposal of the body, one of them even washing out the bed of the truck afterward. On the other hand, both witnesses asserted that they never anticipated a murder and that they assisted in the coverup only because they were afraid of the appellant. The majority opinion held that, notwithstanding the fact that these assertions were uncontradicted, they "could very well have been discounted under the circumstances presented in this case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Long v. State“common understanding” existed between the appellant and the two witnesses that some offense would be committed; that use of deadly force was contemplated, however jokingly; and that both had participated in the disposal of the body, one of them even washing out the bed of the truck afterward. On the other hand, both witnesses asserted that they never anticipated a murder and that they assisted in the coverup only because they were afraid of the appellant. The majority opinion held that, notwithstanding the fact that these assertions were uncontradicted, they”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Long v. State“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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