Pyles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Cantu v. State (1992), Allridge v. State (1991)
60 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · Estelle v. Smith · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Kissinger v. Halperin
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the trial court is present to observe the venireperson, including the demeanor and tenor of voice of the venireperson.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[R.X.F.]'s character as a witness was in issue the minute he took the stand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wawrykow v. State · RXF v. State“Where it its shown by satisfactory proof to a peace officer, upon the representation of a credible person, that a felony has been committed, and that the offender is about to escape, so that there is no time to procure a warrant, such peace officer may, without warrant, pursue and arrest the accused (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morelos 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.