Arcila v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Guzman v. State (1997), Mosley v. State (1998)
63 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 Brown v. Illinois · Bumper v. North Carolina · United States v. Watson · Francis v. United States · Meraz 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Like this Court, the courts of appeals are duty-bound to uphold the constitution and laws of this State and of the United States. So long as it appears that they have discharged that duty conscientiously by impartial application of pertinent legal doctrine and fair consideration of the evidence, it is our duty in turn to respect their judgments.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sledge v. State · Delrio v. State“... Our principal role as a court of last resort is the caretaker of Texas law, not the arbiter of individual applications.... Even if our own decision might have been different [from that of the court of appeals] on the question presented, we cannot accept the proposition that an appellate court’s judgment ought to be subject to reversal on such basis, at least when the evidence is sufficient to support it. Doing so only tends to undermine the respective roles of this and the intermediate courts without significant contribution to the criminal jurisprudence of the State....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Guzman v. State“... when the subject of a search is not in custody and the State attempts to justify a search on the basis of his consent, the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments require that it demonstrate that the consent was in fact voluntarily given, and not the result of duress or coercion, express or implied. Voluntariness is a question of fact to be determined from all the circumstances ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. DuBose 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.