Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 209th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Fletcher v. Weir · Montgomery v. State · Sharp 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Regardless of the plea and whether the punishment be assessed by the judge or the jury, evidence may be offered by the state and the defendant as to any matter the court deems relevant to sentencing, including but not limited to ... the circumstances of the offense for which he is being tried ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks 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.