McQueen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Posey v. State (1998), Cook v. State (1994)
68 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 Alvarado v. State · Lugo-Lugo v. State · Beggs v. State · McClain v. State · Musgrave 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Sec. 6.03 delineates three “conduct elements” which may be involved in an offense: (1) the nature of the conduct; (2) the result of the conduct; and (3) the circumstances surrounding the conduct ... Any offense may contain any one or more of these “conduct elements” which alone or in combination form the overall behavior which the Legislature has intended to criminalize, and it is those essential “conduct elements” to which a culpable mental state must apply. See See. 6.03. For example, where specific acts are criminalized because of their very nature, a culpable mental state must apply to committing the act itself ... On the other hand, unspecified conduct that is criminalist because of its result requires culpability as to that result ... Likewise, where otherwise innocent behavior becomes criminal because of the circumstances under which it is done, a culpable mental state is required as to those surrounding circumstances....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross · Cook v. State“It is a defense to prosecution that the actor through mistake formed a reasonable belief about a matter of fact if his mistaken belief negated the kind of culpability required for commission of the offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Posey v. State · Walker v. State“A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly operates another’s boat, airplane, or motor-propelled vehicle without the effective consent of the owner.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Battise v. State · Porras 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.