McBrayer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably Royster v. State (1981), Day v. State (1976)
56 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 157 Tex. Crim. 266 - Daywood v. State · 164 Tex. Crim. 482 - Hale v. State · Friga v. State · Melton v. State · 171 Tex. Crim. 167 - 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... a charge on the lesser [included offense] is not required unless there is testimony raising such issue that the appellant, if guilty, is guilty only of the lesser offense."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. State · Bowles 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.