Trout v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2016
15 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 Dugard v. State · 75 Tex. Crim. 461 - Hicks v. State · Bearden v. State · Resnick v. State · Harvey 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An essential element of [a motion for new trial] is that the matter or error relied upon. for a new trial must be specifically set forth therein. The wisdom of that rule. lies in the fact that reasonable notice should be given not only to the trial court but the State, as well, as .to the misconduct relied upon and to. prevent a purely fishing expedition on the part of the accused. [Citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“properly presented by the motion for new trial, should not have been entertained by the trial court at the hearing on the motion for new trial and was not properly preserved for appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State“there was insufficient notice given to prepare a rebuttal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore 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.