Abdnor v. Ovard’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2017
21 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 Conrad v. State · Ex Parte Hennig · Castillo v. State · Warminski v. Dear · Abdnor v. Ovard
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An appellant may contest the trial court’s denial of indigency status on appeal, not by application for writ of mandamus. Accordingly, though we disagree with the reasons for denying mandamus relief given by the Court of Appeals, that denial is affirmed.” Abdnor v. Ovard, 653 S.W.2d 793, 794 (Tex.Cr.App.1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abdnor v. State““We also disapprove of the implication in the opinion below [Abdnor v. Ovard, 635 S.W.2d 864 (Tex.App. — Dallas 1982)] that an applicant is required to testify, rather than call witnesses in his behalf....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abdnor 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.