Roberts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Skillern v. State (1995), Compton v. State (1980)
23 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 167 Tex. Crim. 156 - Easley v. State · Castillo v. State · York v. State · Roberts v. State · Freeman 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a cardinal principal of law that descriptive averments in an indictment must be proved as alleged. “‘The allegation of ownership of the alleged stolen property, being descriptive and essential, must be proved as laid.’ ” 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibbs v. State“where one person is alleged to own property, but it is shown to be owned by another, or by a corporation, the State has failed to prove ownership as alleged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. Wj Estelle
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.