Ex Parte Giles’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Rose v. State (1988), Meshell v. State (1987)
55 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 Parham v. Cortese · Johnson v. Moses · Carrillo v. State · State Ex Rel. Smith v. Blackwell · 160 Tex. Crim. 471 - Gilderbloom 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] power which has been granted to one department of government may be exercised only by that branch to the exclusion of the others ... and any attempt by one department of government to interfere with the powers of another is null and void. Ex parte Giles, Tex.Cr.App., 502 S.W.2d 774 [1973]. Smith v. Blackwell, Tex.Cr.App., 500 S.W.2d 97 [1973]. (Emphasis in original).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Meshell v. State · Sanders v. State““In a criminal action pending, on appeal, or commenced on or after the effective date of this Act, for an offense committed before the effective date, the defendant, if adjudged guilty, shall be assessed punishment under this Act if he so elects by written motion filed with the trial court requesting that the court sentence him under the provisions of this Act.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law, regarding criminal matters, the Court of Criminal Appeals and the judges thereof shall have the power to issue the writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, procedendo, prohibition, cer-tiorari, and other such writs as may be necessary to protect its own jurisdiction or enforce its judgments.” [Emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.