159 Tex. Crim. 175 - Herrera v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1971
9 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 148 Tex. Crim. 13 - Boykin v. State · 47 Tex. Crim. 161 - Johns v. State · 40 Tex. Crim. 544 - Walker 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been the consistent holding of this Court that the attack there referred to has reference to an actual attack; that it does not have reference to, nor is applicable when the injured party is about to make, an attack or is doing some act preparatory to the attack.” See also Johnson v. State, 167 Tex.Cr.R. 289 , 319 S.W.2d 720 ; Leonard v. State, 169 Tex.Cr.R. 147 , 332 S.W.2d 562 ; Mays v. State, 170 Tex.Cr.R. 293 , 340 S.W.2d 43 ; Howard v. State, 172 Tex.Cr.R. 352 , 357 S.W.2d 403 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.