Bird v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1982
13 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 166 Tex. Crim. 37 - Cawley v. State · Herbort v. State · Hollingsworth v. State · Flores v. State · Sullivan 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Proof that accused was at or near the scene of the crime at or about the time of its commission is admissible in corroboration of the testimony of the accomplice, and may tend to connect accused with the commission of the crime, so as to furnish sufficient corroboration to support a conviction when coupled with suspicious circumstances, such as [unseasonableness of the hour, without reasonable explanation therefor] * * * being in the company of the accomplice, * * * subsequent flight * C.J.S. Criminal Law § 812, p. 118, quoted with approval in Cawley, supra, at 342 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thorson · Clary 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.