Silva v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2007
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 Thomas v. State · O'BRYAN v. State · Smith v. State · Otey v. Nebraska · Compton 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law requires that judges be impartial and that they not take sides in assisting either side in our adversary system of justice. Cannon 2(A) of the Code of Judicial Conduct provides that “a judge ... should conduct himself at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cantu 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.