Bignall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Hall v. State (2007), Cantu v. State (1997)
149 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 Royster v. State · Rousseau v. State · Penagraph v. State · Aguilar v. State · Lugo 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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]irst, the lesser included offense must be included within the proof necessary to establish the offense charged, and, second, some evidence must exist in the record that would permit a jury rationally to find that if the defendant is guilty, he is guilty only of the lesser offense.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is not enough that the jury may disbelieve crucial evidence pertaining to the greater offense. Rather, there must be some evidence directly germane to a lesser-included offense for the factfinder to consider before an instruction on a lesser-included offense is warranted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“See Saunders, 840 S.W.2d at 391 ; see also Bignall v. State, 887 S.W.2d 21, 24 (Tex.Cr.App.1994) (a defendant is entitled to an instruction on a lesser included offense if evidence from any source”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.