Perez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Cumbie v. State (1979), Robinson v. State (1977)
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 Harris 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the allegations set out in Enhancement Paragraph One of the indictment are true, you will state in your verdict that you find “true” the allegations of Enhancement Paragraph One of the indictment; but unless you so believe, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, you will answer “not true” to the allegations of Enhancement Paragraph One of the indictment. If you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the allegations set out in Enhancement Paragraph Two of the indictment are true, you will state in your verdict that you find “true” the allegations of Enhancement Paragraph Two of the indictment; but unless you so believe, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, you will answer “not true” to the allegations of Enhancement Paragraph Two of the indictment. If you have answered “true” to both Enhancement Paragraph One and Two of the indictment, you will assess the punishment of the defendant at confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for any term of years not less than 25, nor more than 99, or life. If you have answered “true” to Enhancement Paragraph One of the indictment; or if you have answered “not true” to Enhancement Paragraph One of the indictment and “true” to Enhancement Paragraph Two of the indictment, you will assess the punishment of the defendant at confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for any term of years not less than two, nor more than 20 years; and a fi”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Rice v. State“[a] past mistake on the part of the Court is not a justification for committing the same mistake again.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Varela 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.