Haecker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Thomas v. State (1981), Studer v. State (1990)
65 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 Drumm v. State · Moore v. State · Baldwin v. State · Lopez v. State · 144 Tex. Crim. 343 - Conklin 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In many cases, an information will be considered sufficient if it follows the language of the statute. However, this rule applies only where the information is framed under a statute which defines the act constituting the offense in a manner that will inform the accused of the nature of the charge. In other words, if the language of the statute is itself completely descriptive of the offense, an information is sufficient if it follows the statutory language. Lopez v. State, 494 S.W.2d 560 (Tex.Cr.App.1973); Bush v. State, 97 Tex.Cr.R. 219 , 260 S.W. 574 (1923). By the same test, if the language of the statute is not completely descriptive, then merely tracking the statutory language would be insufficient. As was pointed out in Conklin v. State, 144 Tex.Cr.R. 343 , 162 S.W.2d 973 (1942), “It is not always sufficient to follow the language of the statute. There are cases that require greater particularity, either from the obvious intention of the Legislature or from the application of known principles of law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State · Daniels v. State“IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, the Grand Jurors, good and lawful men of the County of Dallas and State of Texas, duly elected, tried, impaneled, sworn and charged to inquire of offenses committed within the body of the said County of Dallas, upon their oaths do present in and to the 203rd Judicial District Court of Dallas County, at the January Term, A.D. 1981, of said Court that one Stephen Ray Nethery on or about the 23rd day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and 81 in the County and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully, intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual_(emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nethery v. State““[i]t is not sufficient to say that the accused knew with what offense he was charged; rather, we must inquire as to whether the face of the instrument sets forth in plain and intelligible language sufficient information to enable the accused to prepare his defense. Moore v. State, 532 S.W.2d 333 (Tex.Cr.App.1976).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McManus 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.