Overton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2012
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 Gordon v. United States · Frank v. Maryland · County of Allegheny v. Frank Mashuda Co. · Thompson v. State · State v. Coleman
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.
““The trial judge, upon the demand of the defendant or his attorney, or of the State’s counsel, shall cause the names of all the members of the general panel drawn or assigned as jurors in such case to be placed in a receptacle and well-shaken, and the clerk shall draw therefrom the names of a sufficient number of jurors from which a jury may be selected to try such case, and such names shall be written, in the order drawn, on the jury list from which the jury is to be selected to try such case, and write the names as drawn upon two slips of paper and deliver one slip to the State’s counsel and the other to the defendant or his attorney.” [Emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alexander v. State““However, the State’s attorney subsequently told the court, prior to the voir dire examination of the jurors, that there would be a motion to shuffle. [Emphasis appears in Overton opinion] Such motion was granted by the trial court, and the trial judge noted in the record that the motion was made prior to the seating of the jurors. The present situation is unlike the recent case of Griffin v. State, 481 S.W.2d 838 (Tex.Cr.App. 1972, wherein it was held that defense counsel was too late in filing his motion to shuffle the venire list when he did so only after unlimited questioning of the panel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alexander v. State“. . the best evidence rule is confined in its application to the requirement that to prove the contents of a document, the original must be produced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Denton 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.