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← 574 SW2D 753 - Etchieson v. State

Etchieson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

51
cited by 51 later decisions
1
states following
March 2013
most recently cited

51 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Taylor v. State (1980), Russell v. State (1980)

51 state decisions

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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 Franks v. Delaware · Aguilar v. Texas · Roviaro v. United States · McCray v. State of Illinois · Andresen v. Maryland

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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““unless (1) the informant participated in the offense; (2) was present at the time of the offense or arrest; (3) was otherwise shown to be a material witness to the transaction or as to whether appellant knowingly committed the act charged.” Etchieson v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 574 S.W.2d 753, 757 .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Losoya v. State · Rodriguez v. State
  2. “. . . The problem is one that calls for balancing the public interest in protecting the flow of information against the individual’s right to prepare his defense. Whether a proper balance renders nondisclosure erroneous must depend on the particular circumstances of each case”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Laque v. State
  3. “Jurisdiction concerns the authority or power of a court to try a case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Johnson 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.