Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Daniel v. Cockrell (2002), Fielding v. State (1986)
2 federal appellate · 53 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 Bullard v. Estelle · Estelle v. Bullard · Bullard v. State · Clay v. State · Brown 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n all of the cases dealing with review in this area there was at least some evidence or facts available to the court and upon which the court could have relied in assessing punishment. We can find no case sanctioning, over timely objection, a particular punishment decision in which there was no evidence of the offense, no information about the defendant, no punishment evidence, no plea bargain; in short, nothing at all upon which the punishment decision could have been based. We decline to sanction such procedure and hold that under the limited facts of this case the trial judge abused his discretion when, over proper objection, he determined the appellant’s punishment. Such determination was a violation of Art. 1.04, V.A.C.C.P., and Art. 1 Sec. 19 of the Texas Constitution constituting reversible error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. State · Jarvis v. State“When the judge assesses the punishment, he may order an investigative report as contemplated in Section 4 of Article 42.12 ... and after considering the report ... he shall forthwith announce his decision ... as to the punishment to be assessed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nicolopulos 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.