Romo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Hernandez v. State (1986), Cockrell v. State (1996)
101 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 Cuyler v. Sullivan · Gordon v. United States · Ex Parte Duffy · Cumbie v. State · McCormick v. Texas
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the prosecutor strays outside these areas, the defendant, to preserve error, must object until receiving an adverse ruling. An exception to this contemporaneous objection requirement exists when the prosecutor’s argument is so prejudicial that an instruction to disregard the argument could not cure the harm. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cockrell v. State“[t]he general rule is that any impropriety in the State's argument is waived by a defendant's failure to make a proper and timely objection.”
1 later decision 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.