McManus v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Bynum v. State (1989), Reed v. State (1988)
120 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 Davis v. Alaska · Lockett v. Ohio · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... if no controverting affidavit is filed by the State, the defendant is entitled to a change of venue as a matter of law. The reason that the defendant is entitled to this change as a matter of law is because in the absence of controverting evidence, there is no issue of fact to be resolved. When there is no issue of fact to be determined by the trial court, and no place for its exercise of discretion, it must grant the defendant's motion. This is the reason it is stated that in this situation, a defendant is entitled to such a change as a matter of law."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““... In the proceeding, evidence may be presented as to any matter that the court deems relevant to sentence. This subsection shall not be construed to authorize the introduction of any evidence secured in violation of the Constitution of the United States or of the State of Texas.” (Emphasis supplied.) 10”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State · Beltran v. State“"A person commits an offense if he commits murder as defined under Section 19.02(a)(1) of this Code, and: ". . . "(3) the person commits the murder for remuneration or the promise of remuneration ...."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.