Worthington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 2001
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 183rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Moody v. State · Bell v. State · Carrillo v. State · LaPorte v. State · Whiting 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the same defendant has been convicted in two or more cases, the judgment and sentence shall be pronounced in each case in the same manner as if there had been but one conviction.... [T]he judgment in the second and subsequent convictions may either be that the sentence imposed or suspended shall begin when the judgment and the sentence imposed or suspended in the preceding conviction has ceased to operate....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nicholas 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.