State v. DeLay’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 331st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Rodriguez De Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc. · State Oil Co. v. Khan · Malik v. State · Boykin v. State · Hammock 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As an intermediate appellate court, we lack the authority to overrule an opinion of the court of criminal appeals,” and even where such a precedent has arguably been undermined by intervening developments, it remains”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the legislature has created dozens of felony offenses contained in at least twenty statutory codes. In light of the historically broad application of Texas’s criminal conspiracy offense, we find it unlikely that the legislature would have intended to eliminate criminal liability for conspiracy in such a panoply of felony offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Colyandro
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.