Vance v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1981
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 Wiley v. State · 167 Tex. Crim. 150 - Duhart v. State · 154 Tex. Crim. 422 - Richardson v. State · Costillo 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.
““A character witness who has attested the good reputation of an accused may, as affecting the weight, credibility, and sincerity of his testimony, be asked on cross-examination if he had heard of acts of misconduct of the accused which were inconsistent with that reputation. Duhart v. State, 167 Tex.Cr.R. 150 , 319 S.W.2d 109 , and Linton v. State, 171 Tex.Cr.R. 213 , 346 S.W.2d 320 . Such inquiry was not subject to the objection of remoteness. Richardson v. State, 154 Tex.Cr.R. 422 , 228 S.W.2d 179 . Nor was the inquiry subject to the objection that the act of misconduct inquired about had not resulted in a final conviction, as required by Art. 732a, Vernon’s Ann.C. C.P., for impeachment of an accused. As was pointed out in Wiley v. State, 153 Tex.Cr.R. 370 , 220 S.W.2d 172 , such inquiry is not made to impeach the accused as a witness but to test the weight and credibility of his character witness. In permitting such inquiry, the court did not err.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooper 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.