Jimenez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1989
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 Roviaro v. United States · McCray v. State of Illinois · Bosley v. State · Acosta v. State · Estes 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The grounds of error are overruled. By his grounds of error one, two, three, and four, appellant complains of certain jury argument of state’s counsel. In his argument to the jury on the issue of guilt or innocence, State’s Attorney Mulder stated to the jury that while they probably did not know what marihuana looks like the two officers “can look at it and they’re going to know — this is their business. This is what they deal with.” While the careful trial judge sustained appellant’s objection to the argument on the ground that it constituted unsworn testimony and instructed the jury not to consider it, such argument appears to have been a reasonable deduction from the evidence, and proper. Both officers were shown to have been attached to the narcotics section of the special service bureau and to have had several years’ experience in dealing with narcotics. The refusal to grant a mistrial does not present error. Further in his argument, counsel stated: “Now he complains about the chain of evidence. We know that evidence was placed that very night in the locked evidence box there in the Crime Scene Search Section of the Identification Bureau. We know it was taken out of that locked evidence box, and by the way, that is why it is locked so nobody can get in there and tamper with it, and it was taken out there to Parkland where it was analyzed after taking the contents out and running the tests on it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parson v. State“This [drugs] is the sort of thing that can even get into the hands of school children and I believe we all know that. I am not saying that that is what this particular”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGee 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.