Canada v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Dewberry v. State (1999), Calloway v. State (1988)
35 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 Barfield v. State · Taylor v. State · Hicks v. State · Newton v. State · Minx 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(6) a reasonable period of delay resulting from a continuance granted at the request of the state if the continuance is granted: (a) because of the unavailability of evidence that is material to the state’s case, if the state has exercised due diligence to obtain the evidence and there are reasonable grounds to believe the evidence will be available within a reasonable time[.] (10) any other reasonable period of delay that is justified by exceptional circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Stewart v. State · August v. State“[t]his Court accords no dignity to an unsworn oral motion for continuance for want of a witness when made by an accused, ... one reason being that there is no assurance of the truth of certain factual matters required by statute to be stated unless written out and sworn to, see Articles 29.06 and 29.08, sufficient to warrant further investigation by opposing counsel or the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Dewberry v. State“the prosecutor's statements referring to the hospitalization of the witness were not competent evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tanksley 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.