Alvarez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Hillard v. State (1979), Rogers v. State (1993)
37 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 Jackson v. Denno · Harrison v. United States · Nicholas v. State · Ford v. State · Baity 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been held that the admission of improper evidence will not require reversal if the same facts are proved by `other and proper' testimony. (Citation). Frequently referred to as the `General Rule,' this rule has been cited so often that no useful purpose would be served at this point by canvassing the many cases in which it appears.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . proof of an extraneous offense is in no way probative of appellant’s state of mind at the time of the killing in the instant case.” Id., at 495 . [Citing, Ford v. State, 484 S.W.2d 727 (Tex.Cr.App.1972); Rodriguez v. State, 486 S.W.2d 355 (Tex.Cr.App.1972).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jamerson v. State“I [appellant] always carry a pistol with me because I shot and killed a man in Lubbock not too long ago and I am afraid of his people,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pemberton 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.