Sisson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1991
21 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 Palmer v. Hoffman · United States v. Ware · United States v. Brown · Coulter v. State · Carey 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Have you heard that on August the 7th, 1976, this Defendant with Randy Walter, Kay Miller and Donna Rana did in fact, smoke marihuana together, have your heard that?"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We cannot agree with the State’s contention that the error was rendered harmless by the fact that the appellant had an opportunity to thoroughly cross-examine the narcotic agent who had filled out the information on the envelope. In Coulter, supra, we agreed with the reasoning in United States v. Brown, 451 F.2d 1231 (5th Cir. 1971) wherein the court stated: ‘[E]ven though “the persons who made the memoranda were present at the trial and were tendered for cross examination (and) that the memoranda were merely cumulative of other evidence properly in the record and that there was overwhelming evidence properly received of the defendant’s guilt”, we cannot say that the error did not influence the jury, to the defendant’s detriment, or even that it had but very slight effect.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carrier v. State“NARCOTICS SECTION INVESTIGATION NO. IC-75-001 DEFENDANT(s) Sisson. Cove DESCRIPTION OF DEFEND ANT(s) white male, approximately 45 years of age approximately 5' 9" tall. 180 pounds, gray hair VIOLATION Delivery of a Controlled Substance: namely cocaine DATE & TIME OF OFFENSE 11-11-75 8:50 P.M. LOCATION OF OFFENSE Gilmer. Texas DESCRIPTION OF ENCLOSED EVIDENCE Three (3) tin foil packages, each containing a brownish powder substance REMARKS . . . . AGENT Danny Green # 2549 WITNESSES .... SUBMITTED BY Danny Green ON 11-12-75 at_M. VIA PERSONALLY /s/ Danny Green Signature”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watkins 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.