Sikes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1997
15 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 Brazzell v. State · Satillan v. State · 163 Tex. Crim. 16 - Vasquez v. State · Hendrix v. State · Brown 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . There is no statement or indication that the prosecutor had other evidence that he could not get before the jury nor is there any indication to the jury that he had other matters in mind when he made the statement. “Such argument did not subvert the rule against the injection into the argument of the purely personal opinion of the prosecutor . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones 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.