Ex Parte Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably Tyra v. State (1995), Davis v. State (1995)
26 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 Polk v. State · Simpkins v. State · Jackson v. State · Ex Parte Patterson · Denham 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or (B) anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. DeAnda v. State · Gregg v. State“(3) “Firearm” means any device designed, made, or adapted to expel a projectile through a barrel by using the energy generated by an explosion or bum-ing substance or any device readily convertible to that use ... (10) “Short-barrel firearm” means a rifle with a barrel length of less than 16 inches or ... any weapon made from a shotgun or rifle ... (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeAnda v. State“a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Diaz 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.