Lindsey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2012
9 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 146 Tex. Crim. 333 - Hill v. State · Archer v. State · Lindsey 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except as provided in Article 12.03, felony indictments may be presented within these limits, and not afterward: (1) no limitation: murder and manslaughter; (2) ten years from the date of the commission of the offense: (A)theft of any estate, real, personal or mixed, by an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, with intent to defraud any creditor, heir, legatee, ward, distributee, beneficiary or settlor of a trust interested in such estate; (B) theft by a public servant of government property over which he exercises control in his official capacity; (C) forgery or the uttering, using or passing of forged instruments; (3) five years from the date of the commission of the offense: (A) theft, burglary, robbery; (B) arson; (4) three years from the date of the commission of the offense: all other felonies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffitts v. State“(a) The change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is covered the law in effect at the time the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs before the effective date (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Higgins v. State“(3) five years from the date of the commission of the offense: [[Image here]] (C) rape, aggravated rape, sexual abuse, aggravated sexual abuse, rape of a child, sexual abuse of a child; (C) sexual assault[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Higgins 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.