Ex Parte Millard’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
February 1995
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on American Plant Food Corporation v. State · Ex Parte Cannon · Drumm v. State · Benoit v. State · Dovalina 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, more importantly, discovering the defect or having it called to the attention of this court, we will not assume the risk involved by undertaking to cure the defect through interpretation and construction of the otherwise fatal infirmity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bogany v. State““A defect of substance provided by Article 27.08, V.A.C.C.P., is when it does not appear from the face of the indictment ‘that an offense against the law was committed by the defendant.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White 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.