Malik v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
619 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 623 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Carmell v. Texas (2000), Hooper v. State (2007)
619 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 · Burks v. United States · Greene v. Massey · Cole v. State of Arkansas · Dunn v. United States
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 623 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accurately sets out the law, is authorized by the indictment, does not unnecessarily increase the State's burden of proof or unnecessarily restrict the State's theories of liability, and adequately describes the particular offense for which the defendant was tried.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. The court of appeals erred in holding that the property owner’s identity is not a substantive element of the offense of theft under federal constitutional law, because no rational trier of fact could have found the substantive elements of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt without proof of identity of the owner named in the charging instrument.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“statutorily worded as a sufficiency standard.”
2 later decisions 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.