Steed and Wray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Hinde v. Hinde (1985), Brenan v. Court of Civil Appeals, Fourteenth District (1968)
85 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.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The term `delinquent child' means * * * any male person over the age of ten (10) years and under the age of seventeen (17) years: (a) who violates any penal law of this state of the grade of felony; * * *.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A judgment must be sufficiently definite and certain to define and protect the rights of all litigants or it must provide a definite means of ascertaining such rights, to the end that ministerial officers can carry the judgment into execution without the ascertainment of facts not therein stated.” Also see Steed v. State, 143 Tex. 82 , 183 S.W.2d 458, 1944 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““On this 24th day of October, 1945, came on to be heard before the Honorable Warren Hames, Co Court of Crosby County, Texas, sitting as a Juvenile Court in said County, the petition filed by the Roy E. Hillin, Sheriff of said County, alleging certain acts on the part of one Dudley Ray Ballard tending to constitute the said Dudley Ray Ballard delinquent child. And it appearing to the Court that all proper persons have had due notice as provided by law in such cases. And the court now having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties proceeded with the hearing. “The Court after hearing petition read and the evidence submitted finds that the Juvenile Dudley Ray Ballard is a delinquent child. “It is therefore considered and adjudged by the court that the said Juvenile now comes under the jurisdiction of said court and shall continue under its care, guidance, and control, until he becomes 21 years of age, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ballard 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.