Christal v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably Davis v. State (1994), Flowers v. State (1996)
40 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 Helms v. State · Ferguson v. State · Wooten v. State · Prochaska v. State · Mooney 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... provided, however, before the defendant who has been convicted upon either his plea of guilty or nolo conten-dere before the court and the court ... assesses punishment [which] does not exceed the punishment recommended by the prosecutor and agreed to by the defendant and his- attorney may prosecute his appeal, he must have permission of the court, except on those matters which have been raised by written motion filed prior to trial. ****’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lemmons 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.