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← 415 SW3D 278 - Bell, Vaughn Ray

Bell, Vaughn Ray’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana))

Relationships

Relies on Illinois v. Allen · Holbrook v. Flynn · Deck v. Missouri · Harris v. State · Long 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the trial judge should make all efforts to prevent the jury from seeing the defendant in shackles.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the record reflects a reasonable probability that the jury was aware of the defendant's shackles.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the record must manifest the trial judge's reasons for restraining a defendant,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.