Vann v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2015
12 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 MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Harris v. State · Sharp v. State · Butler v. State · Carlsen 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As shown above, the Court of Criminal Appeals continually states a concern that courts should not construe the law to allow murder defendants to raise the sudden passion issue to gain a voluntary manslaughter conviction, thereby avoiding a murder conviction, and subsequently to gain an acquittal on appeal by arguing insufficient evidence of sudden passion. We note that this concern only attaches to the sudden passion issue. We find no rational reason to consider a failure to object to a jury charge of voluntary manslaughter as precluding one from challenging the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the other elements of murder. We are also mindful that a majority of the Court of Criminal Appeals has not yet ruled that a defendant who merely fails to object to a lesser included offense charge is estopped from challenging the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a conviction for the lesser included offense. Consequently, we have decided to address appellant’s point on the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grant v. State“was not happy about his marriage and wanted to find a way out.” Id. at 249 . The witness then testified that the deceased said,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Delapaz v. State“wouldn't be surprised if Cherie was waiting for me at home with a gun and shot me”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dorsey 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.