Crain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1993
5 federal appellate · 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 172 Tex. Crim. 7 - Gaskin v. State · 158 Tex. Crim. 604 - Ellzey v. State · 172 Tex. Crim. 54 - Bush v. State · 165 Tex. Crim. 339 - White v. State · 170 Tex. Crim. 56 - English 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At appellant's request the trial court did embody in his charge Article 2, Vernon's P.C., that `The object of punishment is to suppress crime and reform the offender,'....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Teague v. State“the venireman has conscientious scruples against the fliction of the death penalty”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spencer v. Beto
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.