Prescott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Bynum v. State (1989), Theus v. State (1992)
2 federal appellate · 44 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 Chapman v. State of California · Albrecht v. State · Murphy v. State · Reese v. State · Ochoa 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“first time going through this.” Id. at 130 . The trial court held that this statement gave a false impression to the jury that the defendant had no criminal record. Id. In affirming the trial court’s ruling, this Court stated: When the accused leaves such a false impression during his direct examination, he is commonly said to have”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tovar v. State · Daggett v. State“[I]t is well settled that “an accused puts his character for veracity (as opposed to his moral character) in issue by merely taking the stand, and thus he may be impeached in the same manner as any other witness.” Hammett v. State, 713 S.W.2d 102, 105 (Tex.Cr.App.1986). As with any other witness, an accused cannot be impeached by a prior offense with which he has been charged unless the charges resulted in a final conviction for either a felony offense or an offense involving moral turpitude, neither of which is too remote. Ochoa v. State, 481 S.W.2d 847, 850 (Tex.Cr.App.1972). An exception to this general rule arises when a witness, during direct examination, leaves a false impression as to the extent of either his prior (1) arrests (2) convictions (3) charges or (4) “trouble” with the police.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Q. Did you — do you find anything unusual that the lawyer [who] decided to work on your case took two statements one day? A. Well, I’m — this is my first time of going through this. Hopefully my last. In other words, I don’t — I'm not sure about the legal lawyer (pause) whatever. Q. Okay. A. Procedures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Theus 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.