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Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

79
cited by 79 later decisions
1
states following
August 2016
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 76 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Rezac v. State (1990), Boutwell v. State (1985)

2 federal appellate · 76 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 Doyle v. State · Sattiewhite v. State · Bishop v. State · Wilson v. State · Carter 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “There is a fundamental proposition pertaining to appellate functions of the Judicial Department: A constitutional grant of appellate jurisdiction treats a right of appeal in criminal cases `as a remedy to revise the whole case upon the law and facts, as exhibited in the record,' The Republic v. Smith, Dallam, 407 (Tex.), quoted approvingly by the Supreme Court of Texas in Bishop v. The State, 43 Tex. 390, 400 (1875).”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Rushing v. State · Olivas v. State
  2. ““Once jurisdiction of an appellate court is invoked, exercise of its reviewing functions is limited only by its own discretion or a valid restrictive statute.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Dees v. State · Morris v. State
  3. “this court can only sit in review upon matters of error either fundamental or which are properly raised upon the trial”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hensarling 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.