Vallejo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Lowery v. State (1973), Gordon v. State (1990)
31 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Giordenello v. United States · Barnes v. Texas · Davis v. Mabry · Barnes 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... ONE HERMAN R VALLEJO JR [ ] ON OR ABOUT THE 31 DAY OF MAR — , 1965, AND BEFORE THE MAKING AND FILING OF THIS COMPLAINT, WITHIN THE INCORPORATED LIMITS OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN, IN TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, [] did drive and operate a motor vehicle upon a public street therein situated at a speed which was greater than was then reasonable and prudent under the circumstances then existing, to-wit, at a speed of 45 miles per hour, at which time and place the lawful maximum pri-ma facie reasonable and prudent speed indicated by an official sign then and there posted was 30 miles per hour ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““I, Irene K. Harper, being duly sworn do state upon my oath that I have good reason to believe and do believe that in said County of Harris and State of Texas, heretofore on or about the 16th day of February, A.D. 1966, Bobby Fay Cisco did then and there unlawfully, while intoxicated, drive and operate a motor vehicle upon a public highway in said Harris County, Texas.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cisco v. State“It is the rule that a complaint must state facts sufficient to show the commission of an offense charged....”); see also Tex.Code Crim. Proc. article 21.03 (”
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.