Lorance v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1990
5 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 Jeter v. State · Roberts v. Gossett · 37 Tex. Crim. 503 - Russell v. State · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Pendry · General Motors Acceptance Corp. 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A ‘criminal action,’ as used in this code, means the whole, and any part of the procedure which the law provides for bringing offenders to justice; and the terms "prosecution," "criminal prosecution,” "accusation," and "criminal accusation," are used in the same sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eaves
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.