Tate v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 209th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · Chambers v. State · Aliff v. State · Gonzales v. State · Campos 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case, the trial judge did all he could to avoid this error. He granted the motion in limine. He sustained the objection. He gave a strong instruction to disregard. Unfortunately, this was not enough to avoid, or in our opinion, to cure the effect of the prosecutor’s performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scruggs 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.