Soria v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 36 Cal. 4th 510 - People v. Davis (2005), Salazar v. State (2001)
6 federal appellate · 19 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Jurek v. Texas · Wright v. West
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... when the defendant initiates a psychiatric examination and based thereon presents psychiatric testimony on the issue of future dangerousness, the trial court may compel an examination of appellant by an expert of the State’s or court’s choosing and the State may present rebuttal testimony of that expert based upon his examination of the defendant; provided, however, that the rebuttal testimony is limited to the issues raised by the defense expert.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lagrone v. State“whether there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Johnson“); Dinkins v. State, 894 S.W. 2d 330, 358 (Tex. Crim. App. 1995) (en banc) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.