Ex Parte Phelper’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2008
9 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 Phelper v. Decker · Phelper v. State · 85 Tex. Crim. 115 - Ex Parte Gregory v. State · 87 Tex. Crim. 268 - Ex Parte Smallwood
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Both county and district courts have original jurisdiction in habeas corpus proceedings when attacks are made upon the validity of misdemeanor convictions; see Article 5, Section 8 of the Constitution of Texas; Article 11.05 and 11.09, V.A.C.C.P., and petitioners have a right of appeal from an order denying relief. ****** * * * * Even though the applicant may have been discharged from confinement, collateral legal consequences of his conviction may entitle him to relief, [citations omitted]. The applicant is entitled to have a hearing on the allegations which he has made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Renier
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.