State v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2014
15 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 Carlsen v. State · Drew v. State · State v. Gonzalez · Reyes v. State · McIntire 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Verdict” by definition does not apply to a trial court's decision, although the word is used loosely in the statutes and case law. State v. Davenport, 866 S.W.2d 767 , 769 n. 2 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 1993, no pet.). A "directed verdict”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lewallen“verdict” is defined by statute as “a written declaration by a jury of its decision of the issue submitted to it in the case.” Tex.Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 37.01 (Vernon 1981) (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nicholson 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.