McLeod v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 339th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Rousseau v. State · Garcia v. Dial · Pondexter v. State · Tamez v. State · Foster 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We know that the reason for Federal Rule of Evidence 803(8)(B), after which the Texas rule was modeled, was the presumed unreliability of observations that are made by officers at the scene of a crime,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fischer v. State“duty imposed by law as to which matters there was a duty to report,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fischer 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.