Roper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Tennard v. State (1991), Marini v. State (1980)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Tyler v. State · Fite v. State · 60 Tex. Crim. 547 - Ross v. State · Jones 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree that when the issue of consent is raised, proof of specific instances of unchastity with appellant may be admissible, however, we cannot agree that the issue of consent is raised by a plea of not guilty in a cause in which rape by force is the offense. When the offense is rape by force and there is no issue of consent there is no defense that the woman was not a chaste female. Tyler v. State, 145 Tex.Cr.R. 315, 167 S.W.2d 755.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roper v. Beto“Q: “Without telling me any results, did you take a lie detector test about this? Mr. Mabry: (Appellant’s counsel) “I object — ” A: (By witness) “Yes sir.” Mr. Mabry: “ — to this and ask for a mistrial. A lie detector test is not intra-ducibie in evidence.” THE COURT: “Sustain the objection, and the jury will not consider that for any purpose whatsoever.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sparks 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.