Mitchell Mark Orr v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2018
5 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 119th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Hullum v. United States · Griffin v. State · Compton v. State · Watkins 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as alleged in the indictment, because McCann paid Pitco with money orders. Id. at 318 . The Austin Court of Appeals agreed and held that there was a fatal variance. Id. Because there was no proof that the money orders were ever negotiated by anyone, the evidence was insufficient to show that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“recognize[s] the distinction between proof that a defendant merely obtained a check as opposed to proof that the defendant obtained the check, endorsed it, and cashed or otherwise negotiated it”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.