Prystash v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Weatherred v. State (2000), Amador v. State (2007)
2 federal appellate · 119 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 Chapman v. State of California · Furman v. Georgia · Neder v. United States · Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee · Sullivan v. Louisiana
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a party affirmatively seeks action by the trial court, that party cannot later contend that action was error.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he law of invited error estops a party from making an appellate error of an action it induced.” Prystash v. State, 3 S.W.3d 522, 531 (Tex.Crim.App.1999) (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient mitigating circumstance or circumstances to warrant that a sentence of life imprisonment rather than a death sentence be imposed,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.