Decker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Borjan v. State (1990), State v. Turner (1995)
32 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Alejandro v. State · 171 Tex. Crim. 130 - Pennington v. State · Holloway v. State · Cortez 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury selection continued, the State and defense made their peremptory challenges, the jury was sworn, and excused for lunch. After lunch but before the trial on the merits commenced there was a hearing in which L.J. Rich, the juror who had been selected, impaneled, and sworn, testified.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turner“to make an effort to put new garb on an old emperor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Borjan 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.