Castillo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Johnson v. State (2002), Fuentes v. State (1999)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 Garrett v. State · Caldwell 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“question under Castillo was asked. The veniremember was informed the law required him to convict on the basis of one eyewitness if he believed the witness beyond a reasonable doubt, and then was asked whether he could convict under those circumstances. The veniremember replied he”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Zinger v. State“holding the State to a higher [burden] than that required by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.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.