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692 F.2d 1021 · 1982
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2004 · most notably Dretke Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Correctional Institutions Division v. Haley (2004), Ex Parte Williams (1986)
17 federal appellate · 6 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Burks v. United States · Green v. United States · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no rational trier of fact could have found”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because the petitioner was once subjected to an enhancement proceeding where the State failed to produce sufficient evidence of habitual offender status to support a life sentence, the double jeopardy clause bars a second trial-like enhancement proceeding on the basis of the one prior felony insufficiently proven at the earlier trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Texas law does not allow a court to reform the sentence or remand for a new trial solely on punishment where the jury originally assessed the punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briggs v. Procunier
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.