Pacheco v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2018
13 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 Denison v. State · Graham v. State · 160 Tex. Crim. 387 - Parsons v. State · Ross v. State · Madrid 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is an affirmative defense to prosecution that, at the time of the conduct charged, the actor, as a result of severe mental disease or defect, did not know that his conduct was wrong.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Yes. It’s that you told me — if I told him, because of the things that he did, that coming out with a coffee pot, well, we just thought that he was just not right. (R. II, 60).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pacheco v. State“[E]vidence of lay witnesses, who never undertook to express a conclusion or opinion on insanity, was not sufficient to raise the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pacheco 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.