Zimmerman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2006
16 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 Martin Theatres of Texas, Inc. v. Bullock · Ruetz v. State · Gallagher v. State · Maleck v. State · Beard 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“belief that a lost record was per se the equivalent of a silent record”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. State · Graves v. State“[R]esort to [A.R. 7.2(A)(3)] may, in another case, be necessary to enable to petitioner to prove his claim. In view of the heavy burden which a post conviction petitioner bears, and our standard of review in appeals therefrom ... a petitioner would be hard pressed to prove his claim, in the absence of a record. Without such record, a petitioner would have to rely upon witnesses, whose memories or credibility may be subject to severe scrutiny by the trial judge and whose testimony he is not required to believe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. State“the maximum term of imprisonment provided by the judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray 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.