Saunders v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

114

cited by 114 later decisions

states following

December 2018

most recently cited

114 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Robertson v. State (1994), Nobles v. State (1992)

114 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 Almanza v. State · Royster v. State · Arline v. State · Aguilar v. State · Lugo 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“Although other circumstances existed from which a jury could conclude appellant knew his treatment of [the child] might kill him, a jury could also conclude based on the same evidence that appellant may not have known his actions could kill the baby, even though he ought to have been aware of this risk. Under the latter interpretation, appellant could have been guilty only of the lesser offense of criminally negligent homicide. Because this evidence was subject to different interpretations and raised the issue that appellant was criminally negligent in squeezing the child’s head, appellant’s requested instruction on criminally negligent homicide should have been given.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Lofton v. State · Burnett v. State
“First, the lesser included offense must be included within the proof necessary to establish the offense charged. Secondly, there must be some evidence in the record that if the defendant is guilty, he is guilty of only the lesser charge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Thomas v. State · Schmidt v. State
“evidence presented is subject to different interpretations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Lofton v. State · Robertson 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.