State v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Harris County District Attorney v. Lacafta (1997), In Re the Expunction of Wilson (1996)
28 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 Commercial Credit Corp. v. Smith · Roberson v. Robinson · Harris County District Attorney's Office v. J.T.S. · Lemons v. EMW Manufacturing Co. · Texas Department of Public Safety v. Failla
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"a person charged with a felony or misdemeanor is entitled to have his record expunged only if all three of the following conditions are satisfied: (1)An indictment or information charging him with commission of a felony has not been presented against him for an offense arising out of the transaction for which he was arrested or, if an indictment or information charging him with commission of a felony was presented, it has been dismissed and the court finds that it was dismissed because the presentment had been made because of mistake, false information, or other similar reasons indicating absence of probable cause at the time of dismissal to believe the person committed the offense or because it was void; (2) He has been released and the charge, if any, has not resulted in a final conviction and, is no longer pending, and there was no court ordered probation ...; and (3) He has not been convicted of a felony in the five years preceding the date of arrest”.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.