Alford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 283rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · Turner v. United States · Leland v. Oregon
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.
“The burden of persuasion is the burden of persuading the trier of fact that the fact is true.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person commits an offense only if he voluntarily engages in conduct, including an act, an omission, or possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alford 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.