Savant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2010
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 Woods v. State · Faurie v. State · McIntosh v. State · Scott v. State · Ex Parte Smith
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is considered and adjudged by the Court that the Defendant is guilty as charged in the [indictment] of the offense of Driving While Intoxicated and [the Court] assesses his punishment at a fine of $500.00 and 30 days confinement in the Colorado County Jail, together with all costs in this behalf incurred. It appearing to the Court, however, that before this trial Defendant made application in writing and under oath to the Court for probation herein; and it further appearing to the Court that Defendant satisfies the requirements of the Misdemeanor Probation Law of Texas and that the ends of justice and the best interests of society and of the Defendant will be served by granting probation in this cause. IT IS THEREFORE CONSIDERED, ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the finding of guilty herein shall not be final, that no judgment be rendered thereon, and that Defendant be, and is hereby placed on probation in this cause for a period of two years from this date.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A "judgment” is the declaration of the court entered of record, showing: 9. In the case of a conviction, that it is considered by the court that the defendant is adjudged to be guilty of the offense as found by the jury ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones 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.