Hall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2014
6 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 Gallagher v. State · Emerson v. State · Robinson v. State · 31 Tex. Crim. 29 - Craig v. State · Emerson 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in Harris County, Texas, Patricia Ann Hall, hereafter styled the Defendant, ... on or about June 27,1985, did ... unlawfully, intentionally and knowingly operate a motor vehicle on a public highway, in her official capacity as a Harris County Sheriff’s Office Deputy, [and] did ... negligently cause her official police vehicle to collide with a vehicle occupied by [the victims], and by the Defendant’s criminal negligence, did cause the death of the [victims], namely, by operating her official police vehicle at a greater rate of speed than was reasonable and prudent under the existing conditions, and by failing to maintain a proper lookout for the vehicle occupied by the [victims] and the Defendant was not responding to an emergency call.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall“The county courts shall have original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors of which exclusive original jurisdiction is not given to the justice court, and when the fine to be imposed shall exceed two hundred dollars.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall
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.