Tyra v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2006 · most notably Rummel v. Estelle (1980), McKenzie v. State (1981)
24 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 Bullard v. State · 168 Tex. Crim. 306 - Rogers v. State · Villareal v. State · 163 Tex. Crim. 214 - Ball v. State · Langford 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A He put his hand where my vagina is. Q All right. When you say vagina, what do you mean by that? A Where I use the rest room. Q Okay. You mean the whole area around there, don’t you, isn’t that what you mean, the whole area between your legs? A Yes. Q So you are saying that maybe he touched the whole area between your legs, is that what your testimony is? A. Yes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. State“A He put his hand between my legs. Q Did he place his hand against your vagina? A Yes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant 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.