164 Tex. Crim. 455 - Driehs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1997
11 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 114 Tex. Crim. 86 - Cawthon 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to agree with such contention, it would be necessary to hold that the details of the prior offense were material in the present trial. We do not so conclude. The general rule is ... as follows: impeaching a material witness on an immaterial matter is reversible error, because, by discrediting the witness and showing the jury that upon a immaterial issue he had testified falsely, it is calculated to make the jury believe that he may have testified falsely in regard to other matters which were material. (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrison 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.