Billingslea v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2011
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 291st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Bowden v. State · Dickey v. State · Jones v. United States · Rose 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t would be a usurpation of our powers to add language to a statute where the legislature has failed to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas 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.