State v. Eakins’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 2017
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 119th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. State · Curry v. State · Ex Parte Hughes
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article 42.013 was obviously intended to simplify the prosecution of subsequent family assault cases .... The state may rely on the affirmative finding in the prior judgment to prove that the victim of the defendant's previous assault was a family member.” Moreover, Section 71.004(1) of the Family Code, to which Article 42.013 refers, speaks of conduct intended to”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.