Bigley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Collier v. State (1999), State v. Malufau (1995)
90 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 Burks v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Brown v. Ohio · Green v. United States · United States v. Scott
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is without authority to render judgment non obstante veredicto, unlike on the civil side. See Combes v. State, 162 Tex.Cr.R. 482 , 286 S.W.2d 949, at 950 (1956); Hardy v. State, 159 Tex.Cr.R. 54 , 261 S.W.2d 172, at 174 (1953) (no authority to receive verdict and refuse to abide by it); Cagle v. State, 147 Tex.Cr.R. 140 , 179 S.W.2d 545 -546 (1944); Castro v. State, 118 Tex.Cr.R. 53 , 42 S.W.2d 779, at 780, 781-782 (1931).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Savage
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.