Legg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2014
2 federal appellate · 15 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 White v. State · Hathorne v. State · Housing Authority of City of Dallas v. Hubbell · Mooneyhan v. Benedict · Bevill 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.
“"Appellant urges that evidence of an extraneous offense was improperly admitted. During the trial the prosecutor asked Carolyn Gilmore, jail administrator for the Taylor County Jail, to identify appellant in court. The prosecutor then asked Gilmore: "`Q. And how long had he been in jail on this particularThis time, when you had him in there in July?' "Appellant objected to the question as `tending' to show an extraneous offense. It is not clear how the court ruled on the objection, but it did grant appellant's request for an instruction to disregard. Appellant's motion for mistrial was overruled. No mention of any specific extraneous offense was made. The court's instruction was sufficient to cure any error in the question ...." Id. at 433 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hawkins v. State“In the absence of a statement of facts we are unable to ascertain whether a written stipulation was admitted and subsequently misplaced or whether evidence other than a stipulation was admitted to support appellant’s prior conviction. Appellant’s contention does not rise to the level of a “no evidence” claim, and must be viewed as an impermissible collateral attack on the sufficiency of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newton v. State“any jail, lockup, or other facility that is operated by or for a county for the confinement of persons accused or convicted of an offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roy 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.