French v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2012
21 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 158 Tex. Crim. 313 - Hill v. State · 159 Tex. Crim. 228 - Jackson v. State · 169 Tex. Crim. 259 - Fluitt v. State · 170 Tex. Crim. 406 - Miller v. State · Gilder 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the use of properly compounded chemicals; (2) the existence of periodic supervision over the machine and operation by one who understands scientific theory of the machine; (3) proof of the result of the test by a witness or witnesses qualified to translate and interpret such result so as to eliminate hearsay.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bumpus v. State · Rangel v. State““. . . an officer may administer a breath test even though he is not otherwise qualified to interpret the results, Jackson v. State, 159 Tex.Cr.R. 228 , 262 S.W.2d 499 (1953); Shawhan v. State, 393 S.W.2d 921 (Tex.Cr.App.1965), and the standards required to qualify one to administer the test are far less than those qualified to interpret the results. Fluitt v. State, 169 Tex.Cr.R. 259 , 333 S.W.2d 144 (1960). See, now, Article 802f, supra.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Cody 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.