Menchaca v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Yates v. State (1997), Davila v. State (1996)
42 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 346th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Bullock v. United States · Downer v. Aquamarine Operators, Inc. · Alexander v. United States · McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant would not have been entrusted in taking the valuable cargo across an international border if he were a mere innocent, ignorant of all the details surrounding his responsibility and the importance of the cargo in his care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Hggd“The Montgomery court merely recognize[d] that appellate review would be made easier if the trial court would list the reasons for its decision in the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yates 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.