Garner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2017
22 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 337th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State may prove a prior conviction by any of several methods, one of which is by the introduction of certified or otherwise properly authenticated copies of the judgment and sentence and records of the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or a county jail that includes fingerprints of the accused, supported by expert testimony identifying the fingerprints of the accused with known prints of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisk v. State“must accept the counsel appointed by the court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trammell 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.