Narron v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Drichas v. State (2005), Tyra v. State (1995)
29 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 Patterson v. State · Johnson v. State · Luken v. State · Ex Parte Franklin · Grettenberg 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to achieve an intended result, namely, the commission of a felony offense separate and distinct from 'mere' possession.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Patterson, we determined that the weapon was “used” to protect drugs. In the present case, the weapon was not “used” in furtherance of any collateral felony. Thus, because there was no associated felony facilitated by [Petty’s] possession of the deadly weapon, the holding in Patterson dictates that the affirmative finding of the use of a deadly weapon was error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“specifically mention[] a particular object or substance and its use with respect to death or serious bodily injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mata 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.