Hernandez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2012 · most notably Carmell v. Texas (2000), Scoggan v. State (1990)
29 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 Johnson v. State · Hohn v. State · Hernandez v. State · 163 Tex. Crim. 508 - Soliz v. State · Vickery 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conviction under ... Section 22.011 ... is supportable on the uncorroborated testimony of the victim of the sexual offense if the victim informed any person other than the defendant of the alleged offense within six months after the date on which the offense is alleged to have occurred. The requirement that the victim inform another person of an alleged offense does not apply if the victim was younger than fourteen years of age at the time of the alleged offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tyrone v. State · Scoggan v. State“[Section 21.09] makes victims under 17 who have not previously engaged in promiscuous sexual or deviate sexual intercourse and those victims under 14, regardless of prior promiscuous sexual conduct, legally incapable of giving consent to sexual intercourse. Thus, they are not legally responsible for their own undoing and cannot be accomplice witnesses as a matter of law or fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pawson v. State · Moore v. State“It is felt that much of the problem associated with the reporting and prosecution of rape is that the present statutes discourage reporting and prosecution because of embarrassment to the victim and the difficulty in obtaining a conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. State · Scoggan 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.