Winfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1987
12 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 147 Tex. Crim. 14 - Jarrell v. State · 160 Tex. Crim. 460 - Alexander v. State · Parrack v. State · 103 Tex. Crim. 399 - Heeter v. State · 125 Tex. Crim. 372 - Biggerstaff 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not unmindful of the possibilities of abuse of authority which appellant’s counsel argues so forcefully may result from this decision, but we feel that we are bound by the acts of the Legislature and the prior decisions of this Court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lane 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.