Gutierrez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Chambers v. State (1986), Maynard v. State (1985)
48 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 Spinelli v. United States · Livingston v. Texas · Esquivel v. State · Granviel v. State · Wells v. Texas Pacific Coal Oil Co.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The provisions of Titles 1, 2, and 3 of this Code apply to offenses defined by other laws, unless the statute defining the offense provides otherwise; however, the punishment affixed to an offense defined outside this code shall be applicable unless the punishment is classified in accordance with this code.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. State · Jones v. State“(1) "felony of the third degree” if confinement in a penitentiary is affixed to the offense as a possible punishment....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If it be shown on the trial of a first-degree felony that the defendant has been once before convicted of any felony, on conviction he shall be punished by confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for life, or for any term of not more than 99 years or less than 15 years. In addition to imprisonment, an individual may be punished by a fine not to exceed $10,000. (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moss 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.