Zimmerman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Watson v. State (2006), Santellan v. State (1997)
40 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Witt · Penry v. Lynaugh · Jurek v. Texas · United States v. Alaska
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven if the facts showed that appellant robbed the decedent’s body after he had already died, that would not be dispositive. If the State introduces evidence from which the jury could rationally conclude that appellant formed the intent to obtain or maintain control of the victim’s property either before or during the commission of the murder, then the State “has proven that a murder occurred in the course of robbery, although the element of appropriation occurred after the murder.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. State“[T]he presumption of innocence does not carry with it the connotation that a defendant is in fact innocent.”
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.