Gravis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 147th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Jackson v. State · Reyes v. State · Cook 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While this section allows criminal responsibility for the conduct of another, thereby eliminating the necessity for proof of intent to commit the felony actually committed [capital murder], it does not excuse the state from proving a culpable mental state. In fact, the statute requires the state to show that the defendant had both the mens rea to engage in a conspiracy and the culpable mental state to commit the underlying, i.e., the intended felony. The mental state required for the underlying felony supplies the mens rea for the felony actually committed by the co-conspirator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cienfuegos 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.