Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Fisher v. Oklahoma (1988), McDuff v. State (1997)
4 federal appellate · 49 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Darden v. Wainwright · Todd 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“impossible to duplicate ... every minute detail and [is] therefore inherently dangerous [and] offer[s] little in substance and the impact of re-enactments is too highly prejudicial to insure the State or the defendant a fair trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Venegas v. State · Wright v. State“When the ground for objection or complaint to the granting of a State's challenge for cause is obvious to the trial judge and opposing counsel, and there is no suggestion in the record that the parties did not know the basis and nature of the defendant's objection or complaint, a general objection or 'exception' is usually sufficient to preserve the error.” Miller v. State, 741 S.W.2d 382, 387 (Tex.Crim.App.1987). Appellant’s objection was more than a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly v. State“Thus, it is always proper through cross-examination to place a testifying co-defendant in his proper setting as to what might motivate him to testify for the State and against the accused. Therefore, evidence that a witness who testifies against an accused has pending criminal charges against him, is always admissible against him in order to show a possible motive for testifying for the State and against the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carroll 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.