Small v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1972
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 154 Tex. Crim. 263 - Massey v. State · 147 Tex. Crim. 636 - Franklin v. State · 160 Tex. Crim. 12 - Ray v. State · 108 Tex. Crim. 452 - Mason v. State · O'Keefe 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to support a conviction upon circumstantial evidence, every other reasonable hypothesis except the guilt of accused must be excluded, and the evidence must go further than to raise a probability or suspicion.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prejean 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.