Mena v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2015
5 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 · Alvarado v. State · Travelstead v. State · Flores v. State · 163 Tex. Crim. 601 - Humphries 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I. A person commits the offense of murder if he intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual. II. ... A person acts intentionally, or with intent, with respect to the nature of his conduct or to a result of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result. A person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect to the nature of his conduct or to circumstances surrounding his conduct when he is aware of the nature of his conduct or that the circumstances exist. A person acts knowingly or with knowledge with respect to a result of his conduct when he when he is aware that his conduct is reasonably certain to cause the result. III. Therefore, if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, William C. Wallace, did, in Bexar County, Texas, on or about the 3rd day of August, 1986, intentionally or knowingly cause the death of an individual Frank Robles by shooting the said Frank Robles with a gun, you will find the defendant guilty of murder as charged in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace 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.