Stokes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2010
14 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 156 Tex. Crim. 228 - Wilson v. State · Ward v. State · Ex Parte Lewis · Ex Parte March · 156 Tex. Crim. 377 - Ex Parte Collier
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A sentence is a final judgment and should be sufficient on its face to effect its purpose without resort to evidence in aid thereof. It should further convey to the authorities at the ... County jail clear and unequivocal orders of the trial court so that they may know definitely how long to detain the convict or prisoner. 688 S.W.2d at 540 . (Quoting from Ex parte Lewis, 414 S.W.2d 682 , 683 (Tex.Crim.App.1967).) (Emphasis added.) 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perez v. State“(b) Notice of appeal shall be filed ... within 15 days after sentencing. (c) For the purpose of this article, “sentencing” means the date the sentence is imposed or suspended in open court or the date the other appealable order is signed by the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodarte 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.