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Howeth v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
July 2005
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2005

2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

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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 Burks v. United States · Greene v. Massey · Thompson v. City of Louisville · Peach v. State · Green 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The complaint alleges in pertinent part: Larry Michael Martin, defendant, did then and there drive and operate a motor vehicle, to-wit: Volvo, in and upon 4100 block Manorfield, a public street contrary to the ordinances of said city, and, within an urban district and the corporate limits of said city, at a speed which was greater than was then and there reasonable and prudent under the conditions then existing, having regard to the actual and potential hazards, to-wit: at a speed of 31 miles per hour; at which time and place the maximum prima facie reasonable and prudent speed limit applicable was 20 miles per hour. [Emphasis added.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “implicates the due course of law clause of the Texas Constitution.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “ex mero motu or ex proprio motu or sua sponte”
    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.