Tyra v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Keeter v. State (2002), Mann v. State (2001)
1 federal appellate · 43 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 Polk v. State · Vernon v. State · Patterson v. State · Lewis v. State · Ex Parte Beck
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... when it is shown that a deadly weapon as defined in Section 1.07, Penal Code, was used or exhibited during the commission of a felony offense or during immediate flight therefrom, and that the defendant used or exhibited a deadly weapon or was a parly to the offense and knew that a deadly weapon would be used or exhibited. Penal Code § 1.07(a)(17) defines a deadly weapons as either (A) a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or (B) anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bochly injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Coleman v. State · Walker v. State“[T]he purpose of the bill is to ... attempt to deter the commission of those crimes by insuring that other provisions of the criminal justice system, such as the calculation of good time credit, and such as the obtaining of probation, and such as the time a person is going to be eligible for parole, are denied the persons who commit those serious offenses in those limited circumstances. That is the purpose of the bill.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(A) a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or (B) anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Glauser v. State · Magee 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.