Zinger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2014
9 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 147th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Almanza v. State · Ingalls v. Roosevelt County · Johnson v. Derwinski · Cantu v. State · Garrett 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Q. [PROSECUTOR]: Are you saying that anytime there's only one witness, that that standard [i.e., reasonable doubt] can't be reached for you, no matter what? "A. [VENIREMEMBER]: Not for me, no sir. I wouldn'tno matter who it was, if it was just one person against another person, to get to that point that you're suggesting, I wouldn't be able to do it. "Q. [PROSECUTOR]: You couldn't do it? "A. [VENIREMEMBER]: No, sir. "Q. [APPELLANT]: So what you're saying, you understand that if you were convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, your obligation would be to vote to convict someone, but what you're saying, as I understand it, is you just cannot conceive reaching proof beyond a reasonable doubt only on one witness. "A. [VENIREMEMBER]: I couldn't get to that point." (Emphasis Supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zinger v. State“that even after the level of proof surpassed [his] personal definition of beyond a reasonable doubt, [he] would not be able to convict a defendant without more. [Gatling] clearly had a bias or prejudice against a phase of the law upon which the State is entitled to rely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zinger v. State“Q. [PROSECUTOR]: Are you saying that anytime there's only one witness, that that standard [i.e., reasonable doubt] can't be reached for you, no matter what?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zinger 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.