34 Tex. Crim. 477 - Bratton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 1974
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant testified. Upon cross-examination, over his objections, the state proved he had been convicted and sent to the penitentiary for the theft of a horse; the objection being that the record was the best evidence. For the purpose this evidence was introduced, namely, to impeach the witness, the record was not necessary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan 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.