Aguirre v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Ngo v. State (2005), Alvarado v. State (1995)
80 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 Stromberg v. People of State of California · People v. Moran · Bailey v. State · Kuykendall v. State · Garrett 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual; (2) intends to cause serious bodily injury and commits an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual; or (3) commits or attempts to commit a felony, other than manslaughter, and in the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, or in immediate flight from the commission or attempt he commits or attempts to commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gandy v. State · Christian v. State“(b) A person is nevertheless criminally responsible for causing a result if the only difference between what actually occurred and what he desired, contemplated, or risked is that: [[Image here]] (2) a different person or property was injured, harmed, or otherwise affected.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In re K.B.H. · Chimney v. State“COUNT I Paragraph A 15th day of JANUARY, A.D., 1995, PAUL CAMERON, did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual, namely: FABIAN DOMINGUEZ, by SHOOTING FABIAN DOMINGUEZ WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, NAMELY: A HANDGUN, and the said FABIAN DOMINGUEZ was then a PEACE OFFICER acting in the lawful discharge of an official duty and PAUL CAMERON knew the said FABIAN DOMINGUEZ was a PEACE OFFICER. Paragraph B And the grand jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further present in and to said Court that on or about the 15th day of JANUARY, A.D., 1995, and anterior to the presentment of this indictment, in the County of Bexar and the State of Texas, PAUL CAMERON, did then and there intentionally and knowingly CAUSE THE DEATH OF AN INDIVIDUAL, NAMELY: FABIAN DOMINGUEZ, by SHOOTING FABIAN DOMINGUEZ WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, NAMELY: A HANDGUN, AND PAUL CAMERON DID THEN AND THERE INTENTIONALLY CAUSE THE DEATH OF THE SAID FABIAN DOMINGUEZ WHILE IN THE COURSE OF COMMITTING AND ATTEMPTING TO COMMIT THE OFFENSE OF BURGLARY OF A HABITATION OWNED BY WILLIAM BRA-DEN. The court’s charge said: A person acts intentionally, or with intent, with respect to a result of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to cause the result. A person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect to a result of his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is reasonably certain to cause the result. Now if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Cameron 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.