Pennington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1988
2 federal appellate · 14 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 171 Tex. Crim. 130 - Pennington v. State · 169 Tex. Crim. 533 - Stickney v. State · 169 Tex. Crim. 183 - Pennington v. State · 172 Tex. Crim. 40 - Pennington v. State · 171 Tex. Crim. 133 - Caballero 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Y]ou must assume that the defendant will serve whatever term of confinement, if any, assessed by the jury and you will not consider the matter of parole in arriving at your verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Keith v. State · Payne v. State““Bill No. Two presents appellant’s complaint to the court’s refusal to permit his co-principal, George Huffman, to testify upon being called as a witness by him. The bill certifies that the co-principal had been tried, convicted, and was then serving a twenty-five year term for the same offense for which appellant was on trial. The co-principal, having been tried and convicted for the same offense, was incompetent to testify as a witness in appellant’s behalf. Article 711, V.A.C.C.P.; Sommers v. State, 165 Tex.Cr.R. 575 , 310 S.W.2d 106 . No error is presented by the bill.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Pennington“The present appeal is from San Patricio County, trial being in the 36th Judicial District Court of that county upon a change of venue. 21”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Huffman v. Beto
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.