Norris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Cockrell v. State (1996), Posey v. State (1998)
1 federal appellate · 29 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · Penry v. Lynaugh · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Doerr v. Doerr · Almanza 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person is nevertheless criminally responsible for causing a result if the only difference between what actually occurred and what he desired, contemplated, or risked is that a different person or property was injured, harmed, or otherwise affected.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“You know, I don’t want to offend you when I say this; I just ask you to consider it. And it’s not an accusation. But with the knowledge you’ve got now in your hands as jurors from all the way back to 1979 all the way up to 1987 — the tracks of violence, the threats, the gunfire, the blood — if you don’t do something about this and he kills again, aren’t you just a little bit responsible? Think about it. Now you’ve got your chance to stop it and to do something. You’ve got the evidence. You’ve got the law. He’s had a fair trial. You know about prior rehabilitation attempts. If you don’t stop him and he does it again, you had the chance to stop him. What are you going to do then? You will have had some responsibility, possibly. I’m not going to say blood on your hands. But it will be more difficult to wash them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rocha v. State“The plain language of Section 6.04(b)(2) evinces a legislative policy to make a defendant, who, like appellant, acts with the specific intent to kill, criminally responsible for the consequences of his voluntary acts. And, this Court has held Section 6.04(b)(2) can be applied to establish a Section 19.02(a)(1) murder. See Aguirre v. State, 732 S.W.2d 320, 326 (Tex.Crim.App.1982)(op. on reh’g). Therefore, since Section 19.03(a)(6)(A) 8 incorporates two or more Section 19.02(a)(1) murders and Section 6.04(b)(2) can be used to establish a Section 19.02(a)(1) 9 murder, and in light of the legislative policy underlying Section 6.04(b)(2) and the statutory first special issue, we hold Section 6.04(a)(2) applies to a Section 19.03(a)(6)(A) capital murder prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts 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.