McCall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Duffy v. State (1978), Walthall v. State (1980)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Katz v. United States · Hopkins v. State · Long v. State · Sonderup v. State · Allen 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prying into hidden places for that which is concealed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“was a proper plea for law enforcement. See Cunningham v. State, 484 S.W.2d 906, 911 (Tex.Cr.App.1972). Finally, in McCall v. State, 540 S.W.2d 717 (Tex.Cr.App.1976), appellant complained of jury argument by the prosecutor to the effect that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly: (2) fails unreasonably to provide necessary food, care or shelter for an animal in his custody;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cross 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.