Briggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Marin v. State (1993), Dewberry v. State (1999)
2 federal appellate · 147 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States v. Salerno · California v. Green · New York v. Ferber
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but forces appellant to call her to the stand, the statute may indeed function to deprive the accused of due process and due course of law. Briggs , 789 S.W.2d at 922 . In footnote four of this passage, the Court declared,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lowery v. Collins · In re P.M.“it is incumbent upon the [appellant] to show that in its operation the statute is unconstitutional as to him in his situation; that it may be unconstitutional as to others is not sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Santikos v. State“If the purpose of former Article 38.071, supra was to insulate child victims entirely from the necessity of testifying in open court, it would seem to be self defeating.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coronado 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.