156 Tex. Crim. 231 - Ex Parte King’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably Hamilton v. Ol McCotter (1985), Steward v. State (1968)
25 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 126 Tex. Crim. 26 - Ex Parte Neisler · 99 Tex. Crim. 643 - Gandy v. State · Ex Parte Padgett · Ex Parte Richardson · 122 Tex. Crim. 339 - Anderson 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court is not authorized to render a declaratory judgment, the sole ground upon which we can entertain jurisdiction being to determine whether or not relator is entitled to release from confinement or discharge. See Ex parte Neisler, 126 Tex.Cr.R. 26 , 69 S.W.2d 422 ; Ex parte Richardson, Tex.Cr.App., 230 S.W.2d 538 ; Ex parte Padgett, Tex.Cr.App., 230 S.W.2d 813 ; and Ex parte Jones, Tex.Cr.App., 240 S.W.2d 776 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parr
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.