Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Castillo v. State (1985), Flores v. State (2000)
27 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 Thomas v. State · Ferguson v. State · McManus v. State · Gorman v. State · Haecker 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When considering a motion to quash the indictment, it is not sufficient to say the defendant knew with what offense he was charged; rather, the question presented is whether the face of the indictment or charging instrument sets forth in plain and intelligible language sufficient information to enable the accused to prepare his defense. Marrs v. State, 647 S.W.2d 286, 289 (Tex.Cr.App.1983); McManus v. State, 591 S.W.2d 505 (Tex.Cr.App.1979); Haecker v. State, 571 S.W.2d 920 (Tex.Cr.App.1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniels v. State“... we conclude that the indictment, read as a whole, gave adequate notice that the term “appropriate” referred only to § 31.01(5)(B). Thus, the trial court did not err in refusing the appellant’s motion to quash the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kaczmarek 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.