Darden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Nichols v. Scott (1995), Fairfield v. State (1981)
1 federal appellate · 70 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 Dezelle v. State · People v. Temple · Miller v. State · 91 Tex. Crim. 9 - Garcia v. State · 166 Tex. Crim. 340 - Bell 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established that a plea of guilty to a felony charge before a jury admits the existence of all facts necessary to establish guilt and, in such cases, the introduction of testimony by the State is to enable the jury to intelligently exercise the discretion which the law vests in them touching the penalty to be assessed, (cases cited omitted)””
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · Whan 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.