Gordon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2001
24 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Ex Parte Reynolds · Ex Parte March · Lechuga v. State · Garner 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the same defendant has been convicted in two or more cases, ... in the discretion of the court, the judgment in the second and subsequent convictions may either be that the punishment shall begin when the judgment and sentence in the preceding conviction has ceased to operate, or that the punishment shall run concurrently with the other case or cases, and sentence and execution shall be accordingly.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State“The State would further show that said appellant did then and there violate terms and conditions of his probation by: committing an offense against the State of Texas, to-wit; on or about August 3, 1985, in Harris County, the appellant did then and there unlawfully intentionally and knowingly possess marijuana in a useable quantity of under two ounces.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.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.