Beltran v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Carmell v. Texas (2000), Cantu v. State (1992)
2 federal appellate · 52 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 Jurek v. Texas · Chambers v. State · Brasfield v. State · Russell v. State · Porter v. Texas
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... To hold that the facts of this offense, standing alone, would support such a verdict [of death] would mean that virtually every murder in the course of a robbery would warrant the death penalty. Such a construction would destroy the purpose of the punishment stage in capital murder cases, which is to provide a reasonable and controlled decision on whether the death penalty should be imposed, and to guard against its capricious and arbitrary imposition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... [T]he instant murder case was clearly senseless and unnecessary as most murders committed in the course of a robbery are. [However], [t]here was no showing that the robbery was long in planning or that the murder or violence was intended although the appellant was armed when he entered the store.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilkerson v. State“In view of appellant's contention, we are free to review both the properly and improperly admitted evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards 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.