Young v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2007
8 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 Trammel v. United States · Burns v. State · Garcia v. State · Stephens v. State · Johnigan 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither husband nor wife shall, in any case, testify as to communications made by one to the other while married.... The husband and wife may, in all criminal actions, be witnesses for each other, but except as hereinafter provided, they shall in no case testify against each other in a criminal prosecution. However, a wife or husband may voluntarily testify against each other in any case for an offense involving any grade of assault or violence committed by one against the other or against any child of either under 16 years of age, ... (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Velasquez v. State“What must be looked to here is not the “involving” feature of the statute; certainly the instant offense involved an assault where appellant drove his automobile into a smaller car and thereby, the indictment avers, did “threaten imminent bodily injury to [the third party].” Rather it is a case for an offense allegedly committed by appellant against [the third party]. As the panel correctly perceives, “the wife was not the injured party in the case being tried.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Velasquez v. State“The exceptional situation at issue in Garcia, supra, however, was ... ‘or against any child of either under 16 years of age’ . . . The dispositive question . . . was whether the alleged act of indecency with a child is ‘an offense involving any grade of assault ... committed ... against any child . . .’ [emphasis in the original]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willard 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.