Fearance v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Muniz v. State (1993), Ladd v. State (1999)
46 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is black letter law that a crime is defined by its elements.”); Fearance v. State, 771 S.W.2d 486, 522 (Tex.Crim.App.1988) (“Statutory crimes are comprised of elements. • A crime is identified by the sum of its elements.”). ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“with intent to commit a felony or theft,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. West v. Johnson
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.