Grimes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Ibarra v. State (1999), Skillern v. State (1995)
55 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 Weaver v. Graham · Dobbert v. Florida · Collins v. Youngblood · Cooper v. State of California · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the court of appeals or the Court of Criminal Appeals awards a new trial to a defendant ... only on the basis of an error or errors made in the punishment stage of the trial, the cause shall stand as it would have stood in case the new trial had been granted by the court below, except that the court shall commence the new trial as if a finding of guilt had been returned and proceed to the punishment stage of the trial under Subsection (b), Section 2, Article 37.07, of this code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kingsley v. State“This Court was asked to decide whether application of TEX.CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 44.29(b) violated the ex post facto provision and the retroactive law provision of the Texas Constitution in Grimes . [7] After concluding that application of Article 44.29(b) in that case did not violate the ex post facto law provision of the Texas Constitution, this Court then addressed the retroactive law provision of the Texas Constitution. This Court assumed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Fowler v. State“the State's constitutional prohibition against retroactive legislation is not violated by Article 44.29(b)'s application in the trial court to cases which have been reversed on appeal for errors committed only in the punishment phase of trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Fowler 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.