Chavez-Becerra v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Farmer v. State (2005), Cazier v. State (2006)
26 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 Rogers v. Loether · Mueller v. Allen · Bouwkamp v. State · Laughlin v. United States · Armstrong 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“instructions not based on the evidence can be properly refused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“trial court can properly refuse an instruction which merely rephrases the jury's obligation to find all elements beyond a reasonable doubt....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[eJvidence is to be viewed in a light favorable to the accused and taken as true to determine if evidence is competent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas 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.