Shaffer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2010
10 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 Almanza v. State · Ex Parte Collier · State Ex Rel. Turner v. McDonald · Lawrence v. State · State Ex Rel. Bryan v. McDonald
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.
““We now hold the State’s failure to give written consent to defendant’s jury waiver, in violation of Art. 1.13, does not constitute error as to a defendant or from which a defendant may complain. Consequently, the harm analysis of Rule 81(b)(2), Tex.R.App.Pro., is not necessary in this case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Moncivaiz 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.