Chavez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2005
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 34th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Ashe v. Swenson · Geesa v. State · Moreno v. State · Matson 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n my view, the State has effectively, though not formally, attempted to amend the charging instrument in the present cause mid-stream after failing to present sufficient evidence to convince the jury that Appellant used [the charged weapon] in this assault.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Flenteroy 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.