Plessinger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2002 · most notably Gollihar v. State (2001), Bullard v. Estelle (1982)
32 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 Baity v. State · Loud v. State · United States v. Duran · 56 Tex. Crim. 253 - Worsham v. State · Hale 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While the carelessness here involved is not to be condoned, we are unable to say that appellant has shown surprise or that he was misled to his prejudice. See Burton v. State, 493 S.W.2d 837 (Tex.Cr.App. 1973); Loud v. State, 499 S.W.2d 295 (Tex.Cr.App.1973). "The object of the doctrine of variance between allegations of an indictment is to avoid surprise, Worsham v. State [ 56 Tex.Cr. 253 ], 120 S.W. 439 (1909), and for such variance to be material it must be such as to mislead the party to his prejudice. Castro v. State [ 124 Tex.Cr. 13 ], 60 S.W.2d 211 (1933); Thurmon v. State [ 145 Tex.Cr. 279 ], 167 S.W.2d 528 (1942)."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Schneider v. State · Cole v. State“The State of Arizona vs. Delbert Lorraine Plessinger, Jr.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. State“The State of Texas vs. Delbert Lorraine Plessinger, Jr.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole 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.