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← 21 S.W.3d 901 - Hart v. State

Hart v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
October 2016
most recently cited

21 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Hill · Walker v. State · Dykes v. Compton · Potts 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[tjhere is ... ‘sexual penetration’ in a legal sense if there is the slightest penetration of the sexual organ of the female by the sexual organ of the male. It is not necessary that the vagina be entered or that the hymen be ruptured; the entering of the vulva or labia is sufficient.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[W]hether to grant the petition [for habeas corpus relief] is a question of law that we review de novo.”
    1 later decision 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.