McElroy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably Simmons v. State (1974), Mays v. State (1978)
25 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 Smith v. State · 88 Tex. Crim. 642 - Mason v. State · 152 Tex. Crim. 376 - Barkley v. State · 143 Tex. Crim. 367 - Conn v. State · 89 Tex. Crim. 515 - Boaz 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the refusal to so charge was not error when there was (1) no evidence that the defendant fired shots after the deceased fell, (2) no evidence that the combatants changed position and (3) the shots were fired without any noticeable intermission, it being a continuous and rapid transaction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mays v. State““This court should not be required to hunt through a voluminous record to find evidence which an appellant claims ought to have been limited by a jury instruction, and then speculate as to whether the evidence discovered, if any, is that referred to by the appellant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frey 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.