Childs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably Penagraph v. State (1981), Milton v. Procunier (1984)
36 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 Saia v. United States · Brown v. State · Robinson v. State · Oden v. United States · Ortega 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant may not have a witness testify about his good character traits but avoid ‘placing his reputation in evidence’ simply by not specifically asking whether appellant enjoyed a good reputation in the community. . . .””
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Odum v. State · Els v. State““Ground of error number 1 relates to the testimony of appellant’s father at the hearing on punishment. He testified, on direct examination, that he joined with his son in requesting the jury to grant the appellant probation. He further stated that he would keep appellant at his home, employ him and supervise his conduct and assist him in maintaining exemplary conduct. He also testified: ‘Q. [Defense attorney] . . . And has his conduct been good since he has been there while he has been there at home? ‘A. [Witness] Really has.’ “On cross-examination the witness admitted that the effect of his answers to counsel’s questions had been to tell the jury that his son was ‘of good character’. He was then asked over appellant’s objection if ‘he had heard’ that his son, the appellant, had been indicted for robbery and for possession of marihuana and was living with a prostitute who was also a heroin addict.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The weapon was not held out to be the one used in the robbery. We conclude, as we did in Ortega v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 462 S.W.2d 296 , that, in the absence of bad faith, it is not error to ask a witness whether a particular weapon is similar to one used during the offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Quintanilla 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.