Bircher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1994
5 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 Leaderbrand v. State · Woods v. State · Elmo v. State · Walker v. State · Jackson 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the undisputed facts show that a burglary was committed and the appellant was found on the inside of the burglarized house, although there is no positive evidence that the appellant actually did the breaking, it is not error to refuse to submit a circumstantial evidence charge.” See Bircher v. State, 491 S.W.2d 443 at p. 445 (Tex.Cr.App.1973), and cases there cited; also see Shelby v. State, 479 S.W.2d 31 (Tex.Cr.App.1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Casarez v. State““The record reveals some discrepancy in the testimony as to the date of the commission of the offense and the court charged the jury in appropriate language that under the pleadings the state could prove commission of the offense on any date prior to the filing of the indictment and within statute of limitations. Under the record such a charge was proper, [citing authorities].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lighter 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.