Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2010
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 185th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Harris v. State · United States v. Whiting Pools, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case before us, appellant contends that Dr. Quijano’s testimony is relevant to the issue whether he intentionally and knowingly killed Larose. What he appears to be arguing is some sort of insanity defense, even though his expert testified that he was sane at the time of the shooting.... We do not believe, however, that absent a plea of insanity or evidence raising that defense, a proper way to negate intent is to show that a defendant does not have the concurrent mental capability to know that his conduct was wrong. See Tex.Pen.Code Ann. § 8.01(a) (Vernon 1994). The negation of intent is absence of intent; that is an entirely different concept than the incapacity to form an intent due to severe mental disease or defect. The latter we label “insanity.” Appellant has attempted to fashion a hybrid defense to criminal responsibility, one in which he is admittedly sane but unable to form an intent to commit a proscribed act. We do not recognize any such defense as a legal justification for criminal acts. Because there is no such defense upon which appellant can rely, his expert’s testimony was not relevant to any issue before the jury. Therefore, the trial court did not err in refusing it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nejnaoui v. State“In all prosecutions for murder, the state or the defendant shall be permitted to offer testimony as to all relevant facts and circumstances surrounding the killing and the previous relationship existing between the accused and the deceased, together with all relevant facts and circumstances going to show the condition of the mind of the accused at the time of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“Failure to object to inadmissible testimony can constitute a sound and plausible trial strategy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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