De Blanc v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1984
6 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 77 Tex. Crim. 185 - Howard v. State · 93 Tex. Crim. 54 - Osborne v. State · 94 Tex. Crim. 403 - Modica v. State · Dignowitty v. State · 98 Tex. Crim. 485 - Segal 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, however, the facts in this case should be held to constitute swindling under article 1421, yet it cannot be gainsaid that the facts would authorize a jury to find that the possession of the hogs was obtained by fraudulent pretext, with the intent to deprive the owner of their value, and with the intent to appropriate the property to his own use and benefit, and under such circumstances he would also be guilty of theft by fraudulent pretext”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is obvious that the owner did not intend to vest the title to the property in the appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.