Vessels v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 1993 · most notably Hernandez v. State (1986), Grunsfeld v. State (1992)
61 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 United States v. Equitable Life Assurance Society · Ashley v. Texas · Miller v. State · Bryan v. State · Hobbs 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““3. Evidence of prior criminal record in all criminal cases after a finding of guilty (a) Regardless of the plea and whether the punishment be assessed by the judge or the jury, evidence may be offered by the state and the defendant as to the prior criminal record of the defendant, his general reputation and his character. The term prior criminal record means a final conviction in a court of record, or a probated or suspended sentence that has occurred prior to trial, or any final conviction material to the offense charged. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mullins 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.