King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Kutzner v. State (1999), Hartsfield v. State (2010)
104 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 · In Re King's Estate · Thompson v. City of Louisville · Butler v. State · Choate v. San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co.
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[W]hen the quantity of a substance possessed is so small that it cannot be measured, there must be evidence other than mere possession to prove that the defendant knew the substance in his possession was a controlled substance.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fulcher v. State · Victor v. State“In my view we erroneously relied on Cantu and Reyes in Daniels v. State, 574 S.W.2d 127 (Tex.Crim.App.1978), in holding for the first time that other evidence might be used to prove knowledge for purposes of possession where the quantity of the substance was too small to be measured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hyett v. State“Therefore, the State must prove, through other evidence, that appellant had knowledge that the substance in his possession was cocaine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Victor 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.