Rexford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2012
15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 230th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Townsend v. Burke · County of Los Angeles v. Chavez-Salido · Green v. Missouri · Green v. State · United States v. Woody
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Regardless of the plea ... evidence may, as permitted by the Rules of Evidence, be offered by the state ... as to any matter the court deems relevant to sentencing, including the prior criminal record of the defendant, his general reputation and his character.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lasker v. State · Robles 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.