Falcone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2015
3 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 Greene v. Massey · Ex Parte Harrell · Jones v. State · Williams v. State · Bryant 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Article" means any object, material, device, or substance or any copy thereof, including a writing, recording, drawing, sample, specimen, prototype, model, photograph, micro-organism, blueprint, or map. (2) "Copy" means a facsimile, replica, photograph, or other reproduction of an article or a note, drawing, or sketch made of or from an article. (3) "Representing" means describing, depicting, containing, constituting, reflecting, or recording. (4) "Trade secret" means the whole or any part of any scientific or technical information, design, process, procedure, formula, or improvement that has value and that the owner has taken measures to prevent from becoming available to persons other than those selected by the owner to have access for limited purposes. (b) A person commits an offense if, without the owner's effective consent, he knowingly:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Schalk v. State · Schalk v. State“held fatally defective because it did not effectively identify the property in question). Having determined that computer programs are proper subjects for trade secret litigation under Texas civil and criminal law, we now look to the case sub judice to determine whether the programs which appellants copied and took with them to VCS are trade secrets as defined by § 31.05 of the Penal Code, to-wit: § 31.05 Theft of Trade Secrets (a) For purposes of this section: (1)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schalk v. State““deprive” means to withhold property from the owner permanently or for so extended a period of time that a major portion of the value or enjoyment of the property is lost to the owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warren 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.