Long v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2010
19 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 212th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Blackledge v. Perry · Turner v. Louisiana · Almanza v. State · Moreno v. State · Albrecht 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mere accusations, or specific acts of misconduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of GMP · Scott v. State“Turner , of course, did not set down a rigid, per se rule automatically requiring the reversal of any conviction whenever any Government witness comes into any contact with the jury. The Court’s opinion specifically indicated that association with the jury by a witness whose testimony was “confined to some uncontro-verted or merely formal aspect of the case for the prosecution” would hardly present a constitutional problem, [citations omitted] And it indicated that a mere “brief encounter,” by chance with the jury would not generally contravene due process principles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Onofre 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.