Cumpian v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 81st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Hagemann v. American Savings & Loan Ass'n · Sharp 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No judge shall sit in any case wherein he may be interested, or where either of the parties may be connected with him, either by affinity or consanguinity, within such a degree as may be prescribed by law, or when he shall have been counsel in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elam 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.