State v. Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
142 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Ladd v. State (1999), Lewis v. State (1995)
142 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 Johnson v. Fourth Court of Appeals · Stone v. Lawyers Title Ins. Corp. · Cantu v. State · Simon v. York Crane & Rigging Co., Inc. · Reyes 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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]or more than one hundred and twenty years, our trial judges have had the discretion to grant new trials in the interest of justice. In Mullins v. State, 37 Tex. 337, 339-340 (1872-73), the Supreme- Court, which at that time had criminal jurisdiction held: “... The discretion of the District Court, in granting new trials, is almost the only protection to the citizen against the illegal or oppressive verdicts of prejudiced, careless, or ignorant juries, and we think the District Court should never hesitate to use that discretion whenever the ends of justice have not been attained by those verdicts.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen a rule has been once deliberately adopted and declared and uniformly followed, it should not be abandoned except upon the most urgent reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheatfall v. State“The doctrine of stare decisis requires a compelling reason to change an accepted standard of review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheatfall 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.