Ex Parte Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Polk v. State (1985), Asberry v. State (1991)
45 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 Brown v. State · Harris v. State · Ex Parte Moser · Howard v. State · 2 Tex. Civ. App. 486 - Harris v. Hoskins
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[[Image here]] Findings on use of Deadly Weapon: Based on the evidence in this case, the court finds that the defendant, Juan Andres Cordova, exhibited and used a deadly weapon, to wit: a firearm, in the commission of the offense of murder, which occurred on the 7th day of September, 1985 ... [[Image here]] Based on the evidence in this case, the court finds that the Defendant, Juan Andres Cordova, exhibited and used a deadly weapon, to-wit: A firearm, in the commission of the offense of murder, which occurred on the 7th day of September, 1985.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Else v. State · Cordova v. State“We should not be understood to hold that this method was the only, or even the better, way to make such a finding. Different indictments, instructions, or forms of verdict obviously might make such a method inadequate to comply with the statute. Nor should we be understood to say that instructions or special issues would be improper or unnecessary in a given case; these questions are not presented today.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed 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.