Chapa v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2016
15 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 · Barnes v. Texas · Davis v. Mabry · Vallejo v. State · Royal 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shall be unlawful for any person to procure any article or thing of value, . to make or draw or utter or deliver, with intent to defraud, any check . . . knowing at the time of such making . . . that the maker . has not sufficient funds . . . for the payment of such check.” Acts 1951, 52nd Leg., p. 496, ch. 305, § 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sigers v. State““Barnes and Aguilar established standards for complaints upon which search warrants are issued, and those standards have no application to complaints which serve only as the basis for criminal prosecutions.” Chapa, supra, 420 S.W.2d at 944 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The purpose of the complaint is to apprise the accused of the facts surrounding the offense with which he is charged in order to permit him to prepare a defense to such charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knox 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.