Seay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1989
8 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 162 Tex. Crim. 237 - Smith v. State · Walker v. State · 156 Tex. Crim. 542 - Scarber v. State · 165 Tex. Crim. 137 - Smith v. State · 113 Tex. Crim. 457 - Matthews 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"True, appellant's counsel got outside of the record and made a statement not supported by the evidence, but we do not feel that his action in this respect licensed the prosecutor to go to the extreme ends that he did in replying. So far as we can determine, the error brought forward in this case is one of first impression in this state. We entertain no doubt that the prosecutor was given far greater latitude in replying than he was entitled to do. If the state is precluded from establishing by evidence specific prior offenses committed by an appellant or charged against an appellant in a case of this kind, and we readily agree that the state is prohibited from so doing, how then can the state adduce such proof at the time of its argument to the jury, or argue such specific offenses or charges?"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrison v. State“"`* * * if he (the prosecutor) is fair with you, he will tell you, "We searched the life of this young man and couldn't find anything against him." And that is why they didn't try to show he had been convicted of a felony in Texas or some other state.' * * * `just as undisputed, that this young man had lived a good life. He has never been convicted, charged, arrested for anything, had any trouble whatsoever, until this present unfortunate tragedy.'" (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrison v. State“And that is why they didn't try to show he had been convicted of a felony in Texas or some other state.' * * * `just as undisputed, that this young man had lived a good life. He has never been convicted, charged, arrested for anything, had any trouble whatsoever, until this present unfortunate tragedy.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrison 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.