Cohen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2003
23 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 Ex parte Maryland · 154 Tex. Crim. 546 - Staley v. State · Stephens v. State · 162 Tex. Crim. 166 - Hardy v. State · 159 Tex. Crim. 364 - Dugan 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘When a person, place or thing necessary to be mentioned in an indictment is described with unnecessary particularity, all the circumstances of description must be proved and cannot be rejected as sur-plusage for they are thus made essential to the identity.’ ” (citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shannon v. State““Where the allegation is not a necessary part of the pleading, the particularity of description is surplusage and need not be proved. Malazzo v. State, 165 Tex.Cr.R. 441 , 308 S.W.2d 29 (1957).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shannon 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.