Doyle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Larry Lee Bledsue v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division (1999), Morrow v. State (1993)
36 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 Burks v. United States · Drumm v. State · Jeffers v. State · Cruise v. State · Childs 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a certain class of citizens to perform vital public duties without fear of retribution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re BPH · Morrow v. State“did then and there intentionally or knowingly threaten to harm another, to- wit: J. Haverland, a public servant, by an unlawful act in retaliation for or on account of the services or status of the said J. Haverland as a public servant, to-wit: superintendent of the Venus Independent School District, Venus, Texas, said unlawful act being to harm J. Haverland, and said threat was communicated to J. Haverland in person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re BPH · Moore v. State“intentionally and knowingly threaten to harm another person, namely: Dan Gibbs, by an unlawful act in retaliation for and on account of the service of the said Dan Gibbs as a public servant, in that the said defendant threatened to kill the said Dan Gibbs on account of the services of the said Dan Gibbs as a judge in a prior lawsuit in which the defendant was a party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. State · St. Clair 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.