Gallagher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Cook v. State (1995), Nix v. State (2001)
32 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 Cleveland v. Ward · Cramer v. Sheppard · First National Bank in Dallas v. Kinabrew · Markowsky v. Newman · Koy v. Schneider
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Official misconduct” means intentional unlawful behavior relating to official duties by an officer entrusted with the administration of justice or the execution of the law. The term includes an intentional or corrupt failure, refusal or neglect of an officer to perform a duty imposed on the officer by law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Talamantez v. State · Hall v. State“Turning to the rules of constitutional construction, it is observed that constitutional provisions which are not ambiguous and are not open to more than one construction or interpretation must be given their full effect without regard to the consequences.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“as that phrase or term is used in the State Constitution. We agreed and held that the said county court was without jurisdiction to try Gallagher's case. The judgment was reversed and the information ordered dismissed. For the same reasons stated in Gallagher we hold that the district court here had jurisdiction over the misdemeanor offense charged. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is affirmed. CLINTON, Judge, dissenting. This is an appeal from a conviction in a district court for”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Emerson 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.