Ex Parte Sadberry’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Ex Parte Graves (2002), Johnson v. State (2002)
40 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 Boykin v. State · Marin v. State · Gardner v. State · Breazeale v. State · Ex Parte Goodman
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"so fundamental to the fair operation of the system as to be 1) immune from procedural default, 2) not subject to a harm analysis, and 3) fully retroactive in application. [ Ex parte Goodman, 816 S.W.2d 383, 388 (Tex.Cr.App.1991) (Clinton, J., concurring)] I would also adopt a doctrine of excuses, entertaining any federal constitutional claim recognized as of the time of trial but for which a record could not have been made, despite due diligence of the accused, in time to preserve the error for direct appeal. [ Ex parte Dutchover, 779 S.W.2d 76, 79 (Tex.Cr.App.1989)] (Clinton, J., concurring; Ex parte Goodman, supra, at 387-88 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ex Parte Fierro · Ex Parte Drake“does not claim he desired and was deprived of his constitutional right to a trial by jury, that he did not intend to waive a jury trial or that he was otherwise harmed, and the record reflects that the [appellant] agreed to the waiver, we will not set aside a conviction by habeas corpus or collateral attack due to the [accused’s] failure to sign a written jury form pursuant to article 1.13.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte McCain · Liggins v. State“The defendant in a criminal prosecution for any offense other than a capital felony case in which the State notifies the court and the defendant that it will seek the death penalty shall have the right, upon entering a plea, to waive the right of trial by jury, conditioned, however, that such waiver may be made in person by the defendant in writing in open court with the consent and approval of the court, and the attorney representing the State. The consent and approval by the court shall be entered of record on the minutes of the court, and the consent and approval of the attorney representing the State shall be in writing, signed by him, and filed in the papers of the cause before the defendant enters his plea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Havard 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.