Carmell v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 12 district · 378 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 662 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Crawford v. Washington (2004), Rose v. Lee (2001)
122 federal appellate · 12 district · 378 state decisions — followed in 35 states
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. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Weaver v. Graham · Marks v. United States
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 662 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“3d. Every law that changes the punishment and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed . . . and those making an existing punishment more severe.”
63 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is plainly a fundamental fairness interest, even apart for any claim of reliance or notice, in having the government abide by the rules of law it establishes to govern the circumstances under which it can deprive a person of his or her liberty or life.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Ordinary rules of evidence .... by simply permitting evidence to be admitted at trial, do not at all subvert the presumption of innocence, because they do not concern whether the admissible evidence is sufficient to overcome the presumption. Therefore, to the extent one may consider changes to such laws as "unfair” or "unjust,” they do not implicate the same kind of unfairness implicated by changes in rules setting forth a sufficiency of the evidence standard.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.