Pesina v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2012
17 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 187th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Burks v. United States · Greene v. Massey · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Dennis v. Dennis
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to establish liability as a party, in addition to the illegal conduct of the primary actor, it must be shown that the accused harbored the specific intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense. The accused must know that he was assisting in the offense's commission, and an agreement, if any, must be before or contemporaneous with the criminal intent. What the evidence must show is that, at the time of the commission of the offense, the parties were acting together, each doing some part of the execution of the common design. A person's acts committed after the offense is completed cannot make him a party to the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Guevara v. State“[a] person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if ... (2) acting with intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense, he solicits, encourages, directs, aids, or attempts to aid the other person to commit the offense....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Guevara 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.