Alford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably McFarland v. State (1996), Moses v. State (2003)
50 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 Patterson v. New York · Geesa v. State · Crank v. State · Alvarado v. State · Williams 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 2.01. Requirement of Voluntary Act; Omission as Basis of Liability; Possession as an Act. (1) A person is not guilty of an offense unless his liability is based on conduct that includes a voluntary act or the omission to perform an act of which he is physically capable. (2) The following are not voluntary acts within the meaning of this Section: (a) a reflex or convulsion; (b) a bodily movement during unconsciousness or sleep;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Whatley v. State““Voluntariness,” within the meaning of Section 6.01(a), refers only to one’s own physical body movements. If those physical movements are the nonvolitional result of someone else’s act, are set in motion by some independent non-human force, are caused by a physical reflex or convulsion, or are the product of unconsciousness, hypnosis or other nonvoli-tional impetus, that movement is not voluntary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Whatley v. State“'[Vjohmtarily,’ as used in section 6.01(a), does not include the concept of free will.” Id. . We attach no significance to the fact that the amended version of the voluntary-release provision deletes the requirement that the victim be released”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Teer 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.