Polk v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2013
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Ross v. Moffitt · Ayala v. State · Ex Parte Santellana · Conrad v. State · 84 Tex. Crim. 75 - Alexander 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Whenever the court determines at an arraignment or at any time prior to arraignment that an accused charged with a felony or a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment is too poor to employ counsel, the court shall appoint one or more practicing attorneys to defend him. " [1] (Emphasis Supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peterson v. Jones“"For the prosecution to a final conclusion of a bona fide appeal to a court of appeals or the Court of Criminal Appeals ...." [2] (Emphasis Supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peterson v. Jones“language in the statute is used with a meaning and purpose.”); Uribe v. State, 7 S.W.3d 294, 296 (Tex.App.-Austin 1999, pet. ref'd) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.