Casey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2009
5 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 Simmons v. United States · Albrecht v. State · Martinez v. State · Moore v. State · Garcia 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before the commission of the [primary offense], on March 31, 1987, in [cause number] 459182, in the 185th District Court of Harris County, Texas, the defendant was convicted of the felony of burglary of a habitation. Before the commission of the primary offense, and after the conviction in [cause number] 459182 was final, the defendant committed the felony of possession of a controlled substance and was finally convicted of that offense on February 5, 1993, in [cause number] 640970 in the 178th District Court of Harris County, Texas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Magic v. State“Section 12.42 of the Penal Code provides: If it be shown on the trial of any felony offense that the defendant has previously been finally convicted of two felony offenses, and the second previous felony conviction is for an offense that occurred subsequent to the first previous conviction having become final, on conviction he shall be punished by confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for life, or for any term of not more than 99 years or less than 25 years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell 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.